Yorkshire Naturalists' Union : Annual Report, 191 1. 23 



Payments for 1911. 



Wages, Spurn 



,, Hornsea . . 

 Donation (Spurn) 



,, (Bempton) 



,, {re Stone Curlews) i , 



do. 2. 



Dawson & Loncaster's account 

 Mr. Norman Lee's account 



Mr. Fattorini's account for Badges for Watchers 

 Mr. Ackrill's account posters for Spurn and Hornsea o 9 

 Protection Schedule Forms 

 Secretaries' Expenses, Postages, etc. . 

 Subscriptions entered in error for 1910 , 

 Rent of Room 



Balance in hand 



Yorkshire Mammals, Reptiles, and Fishes Investigation 

 Committee.^ — The Committee have to report that the outstanding 

 feature of the year's work has been the addition of a reptile to 

 the Yorkshire list ; Mr. W. J. Clarke having detected a local 

 example of the Logger-headed Turtle in the Scarborough Museum. 



The abnormal character of the season has had a two-fold 

 effect. Owing to the drought, salmon and sea-trout have to a 

 large extent been unable to get up the streams, and from the 

 same cause there has been a marked increase in numbers of 

 Field Voles, and other small mammals. Mr. Riley Fortune has 

 furnished customary account of unusually large examples of 

 Freshwater Fishes taken, and Mr. H. B. Booth draws attention 

 to the partial character of the destruction caused to fish in the 

 Wharfe by escape of ammoniacal liquor in October, Trout suffering 

 enormously, and numerous other species not at all. Various 

 records of the more uncommon species have been sent in. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. 



Lepidoptera. — Messrs. Whitaker and Morley write : — In 

 spite of the long hot summer, reports of the scarcity of insects have 

 been received from all parts of the county. " Sugar " has been 

 an almost continual failure, and other modes of collecting have 

 been equally unsuccessful. A few usually common species, 

 especially amongst the butterflies, have appeared in excessive 

 numbers. The three Pierids have swarmed, and P. napi has 

 appeared in three broods in the West Riding. 



1912 Jan. I 



