124 BOTANICAL SECTION: ANNUAL MEETINGS, ETC. 



YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION. 

 BOTANICAL SECTION. 



The Fifth Annual Meeting was held at Bradford, on the 

 4th of March, 1882. The following officers were elected to 

 serve for the year 1882 : — 



President : Thomas Hick, B.A., B.Sc, Harrogate. 

 Secretary for Phanerogarnic Botany : 



H. T. SoppiTT, Saltaire. 

 Secretary for Cryptoganiic Botany : 



G. E. Massee, Scarborough. 



A small committee was chosen, at the suggestion of Prof 

 W. C. Williamson, F.R.S., the President of the Union, to investi- 

 gate the life history of Puccinia graminis. 



Mr. Soppitt being unable to act as Secretary for Phanero- 

 gamic Botany, Mr. Alfred Denny, assistant to the Professor of 

 Biology in the Yorkshire College, Leeds, was chosen in his place. 



With reference to the proposed investigation of the life history 

 of Puccinia grami?iis, the following articles appeared in the 

 ' Naturalist ' for July, 1882 : — 



Vol. vii., pp. 191— 195, 



Notes on Puccitiia graminis. By Geo. Massee. 

 Vol. vii., p. 19s, 



Puccitiia graminis. By Thos. Hick, B.A., B.Sc, &c. 



Trans.Y.N.U., 1882 (pub. 1888). Series E 



