YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS AT HULL. 
Tue Annual Meeting was held at Hull on the 14th Dec. last, 
and the Union is much indebted for the efforts put forth by 
the inviting Societies, the Hull Geological and the Hull Scientific 
Club, and particularly to Mr. Thomas Sheppard, F.G.S., Mr. 
J. W. Stather, F.G.S., and Mr. T. Stainforth, B.A., on whom 
fell the greater portion of the work in connection with the 
local arrangements, and who had obviously done everything 
to ensure the meeting being a success. 
In the morning a party of Geologists, under the guidance 
of Mr. J. W. Stather, visited the Kelsey Hill and Burstwick 
Gravel Pits, near Keyingham, where the extensive sections 
in the exposed glacial beds were examined. These deposits, 
which are very fossiliferous, are of glacial age, and extend 
across Holderness in the form of a range of low hills. In 
addition to the only remains of fossil Walrus found in Britain, 
the bones of the Mammoth, Elk, Reindeer, Bison, and Rhino- 
ceros have also here been found in them. 
After the Sectional Meetings, a large number of officials, 
members of the permanent General Committee, and delegates 
from the Affiliated Societies, twenty-seven of whom _ were 
represented, assembled in the Lecture Hall of the Royal 
Institution. The Report proved very satisfactory. Good 
results scientifically had accrued from the excursions, while 
the sectional reports voiced the activity of the members of 
the sections. The announcement that Mr. Harold Wager, 
F.R.S., Leeds, had accepted the position of President for 1913 
was received with acclamation; all the other officials were 
also unanimously re-elected. 
A most favourable financial report was presented by the 
Treasurer, Mr. H. Culpin. The statement that, as a result 
of the year’s working, the substantial saving of £56 gs. rod. had 
been effected, reducing the outstanding debt of the Union to 
£63 6s. gd., being received with applause. A full text of the 
Annual Report appears in this issue of The Naturalist. Mr. 
Sheppard stated that the Secretary of the Commons and Foot- 
paths Preservation Society informed him that through the 
kindness of Mr. Pitt, an arrangement had been arriv ed at for 
the public to pass over his land, to connect up with the footpath 
along the cliffs south of Bridlington. 
After the preliminaries at the evening meeting, when 
Mr. Wager occupied the chair, the retiring President, Mr. John 
W. Taylor, Leeds, delivered an excellent though technical 
address on the ‘Dominancy and Phylogeny in Nature as 
affecting distribution.’ Briefly, he spoke of the qualities and 
causes which enabled certain types of the human race, animals, 
insects and plants, to assert their dominancy to the detriment 
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