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THE YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION 

 AT HARROGATE. 



The eightieth Meeting was held at Harrogate on July 13th for the 

 investigation of the Crimple Valley, Rudding and Plumpton Parks, 

 and the geological exploration of Hampsthwaite and Clint. The main 

 party left Harrogate Station at 11.20, under the leadership of Messrs. 

 John Naughton and Riley Fortune, in a south-easterly direction for 

 Crimple, Rudding, and Plumpton, while a second party, chiefly 

 geological, started from Nidd Bridge Station half-an-hour later in 

 order to investigate the geology of the district north-west of 

 Harrogate, passing through Ripley, Clint, and Hampsthwaite. The 

 detailed accounts of these routes will be found in the report of the 

 Vertebrate Section so far as regards the first party, and in that of 

 the Geological Section in respect of the second. 



Tea was served in the People's Hotel, Harrogate, where the 

 sectional and general meetings were also held. 



At 6.30 the general meeting was opened, Mr. Thos. Bunker, of 

 Goole, President of the Vertebrate Section, occupying the chair. 

 The minutes of the preceding meeting having been read and 

 approved, the newly-formed Yeadon Geological Society was admitted 

 into the Union, and the following eleven new members were 

 elected :— L. E. Adams, B.A., M.C.S., Penistone ; G. W. Chadwick, 

 Saltburn-by-the-Sea ; George Edson, Malton ; Chas. H. Fletcher, 

 Scarborough; J. H. Lofthouse, Harrogate; J. R. Mortimer, Driffield; 

 Frank Perkins, Harrogate ; Isaac Pickard, Harrogate ; Rev. C. S. 

 Smith, M.A., Driffield; W. M. Suddaby, Malton; and Richard 

 Wood, M.D., Driffield. 



Sixteen Societies were represented, viz.: — Wakefield, Elland-cum- 

 Greetland, Bradford, Leeds, Goole, Conchological Society, Leeds 

 Geological, Dewsbury, Malton, Doncaster, Practical N.S., Harrogate 

 and District, Ackworth School, Leeds Y.M.C.A., Ellesmere School, 

 Yeadon. 



Mr. Lewis B. Ross, F.C.S., was elected to fill the post of 

 Honorary Local Treasurer for Driffield. 



On the motion of Messrs. John Gerrard (President of the 

 Wakefield Naturalists' Society) and John Emmet, F.L.S., of Boston 

 Spa, a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to Sir J. Percival Radcliffe, 

 Bart., the Earl of Harewood, and Mr. Gooderick, for granting 

 permission for members to visit their respective estates ; to Messrs. 

 Naughton and Fortune for acting as leaders of parties, and to the 

 various gentlemen who had contributed to the excursion-programme. 



Aug. 1889. 



