IO YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS UNION — ANNUAL REPORT. 



The Publications of the Union have been as heretofore. 



The Transactions. — Part 12 is all printed, and awaiting 

 binding-up only. It consists entirely of the second instalment of 

 Mr. Baker's ' North Yorkshire,' including two coloured maps of the 

 lithology and climatology of the Riding. 



The Library of the Union continues to increase, by numerous 

 donations and exchanges, and stands urgently in need of increased 

 accommodation. Mr. Charles Brownridge, the honorary librarian, 

 to whom the Union is under much obligation for the care and 

 attention he has devoted to his department, reports that there is 

 urgent need of a new bookcase, the books having long overflowed 

 the accommodation provided, and the want of space hampered the 

 whole administration of library matters, and he hopes that the Union 

 may be able before long to provide the necessary accommodation. 

 The books and bookcases are kept in a room at the Leeds Mechanics' 

 Institution, to the committee of which the Executive are also under 

 great obligation for the use of the board-room for their meetings. 



The Librarian will be pleased to receive donations, particularly 

 of works or papers dealing with Yorkshire natural history or geology, 

 or memoirs written by Yorkshire scientific writers. 



The Sections of the Union have carefully carried on their 

 work during the year, and it is to their efficient working that the 

 success attending the excursions has been due. 



Committees of Research. — During the year the Yorkshire 

 Boulder Committee has done a large amount of valuable work, as 

 shown by their report published in the November number of The 

 Naturalist, and the value and importance of their investigations has 

 been thoroughly appreciated by the Erratic Blocks Committee of 

 the British Association, in connection with which the Yorkshire work 

 is carried on. 



The Marine Zoology Committee's work has been at a standstill, 

 on account of the removal from the county of Mr. Eagle Clarke, 

 who was its secretary. 



The Fossil Flora Committee has collected a series of fossil plants 

 from Gristhorpe Bay near Scarborough, and a number of specimens 

 from the Halifax Coal Measures. The fossils containing structure 

 will be submitted for determination to Prof. Williamson, F.R.S., 

 and the remaining ones to Mr. Robert Kidston, F.G.S., of Stirling. 

 The Committee would be glad if such members as can do so, would 

 forward specimens of fossil plants to Mr. Wm. Cash, of 38, Elmfield 

 Terrace, Halifax, the secretary to the Committee. 



There are other branches of investigation marked out by the 

 British Association, which it is desirable should be undertaken by 



Naturalist, 



