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THE YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION. 



ANNUAL MEETING AT SHEFFIELD. 



The 27th Annual Meeting, held at Sheffield on Friday, the 16th 

 November, was as successful as any of its predecessors, and the 

 Union are much indebted to the Sheffield Naturalists' Club for the 

 very excellent arrangements which they had made. Through their 

 instrumentality and that of an old and valued friend and ex-president 

 of the Union, Dr. H. C. Sorby, F.R.S., the Sheffield Corporation 

 had placed the use of the Public Museum and Mappin Art Galleries 

 at the disposal of the Union for the various meetings, and the 

 convenience of members was met by tea being served in the same 

 buildings. 



The proceedings commenced at 3 p.m., when the General 

 Committee met in the Art Gallery for the dispatch of business. The 

 attendance included the official delegates of eleven societies (eight 

 others being unofficially represented by permanent members of the 

 Committee), the president and two ex-presidents, the two honorary 

 secretaries, the chairman and four other members of the Executive, 

 three presidents and four secretaries of sections, one of the auditors, 

 two of the honorary local treasurers, and seven other permanent 

 members of the Committee — making a total attendance of forty-five. 

 The chair was occupied by the president, Mr. Wilfrid H. Hudleston, 

 M.A., F.R.S. The minutes of the previous annual meeting were 

 read and unanimously adopted. 



The 27th Annual Report (as printed at p. 7 of this number) 

 was read by Mr. Chas. P. Hobkirk, F.L.S., the chairman of the 

 Executive Committee, and upon his motion, seconded by Mr. M. B. 

 Slater, unanimously adopted without discussion. 



The Excursion-programme for 1889 was then fixed as follows, 

 upon the recommendation of the Executive, adopted unanimously on 

 the motion of Messrs. J. W. Davis, F.S.A., and J. W. Addyman, B.A., 

 and with the understanding that the selection of dates be left to the 

 new Executive, inasmuch as the date for the coast excursion depended 

 upon the tide-tables : — 



Upper Teesdale : a three-days' Kirkham Abbey and Acklam Brow. 



excursion in August. Harrogate. 



Robin Hood's Bay. Huddersfield. 



For the next Annual Meeting, a cordially written invitation from 

 the presidents of the Hull Literary and Philosophical, Field 

 Naturalists', and Geological Societies, for the Union to visit Hull, 

 was read, and accepted by an unanimous vote proposed by the Revs. 

 Wm. Fowler, M.A., and E. Maule Cole, M.A. 



Naturalist, 



