YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS UNION AT DEWSBURY. 1 47 



Entomolog'y. — Mr. F. N. Dobree, Beverley, president (re-elected) ; Messrs. 

 G. C. Dennis (re-elected) and S. Walker, both of York, secretaries. 



Botany. — Mr. F. Arnold Lees, Heckmondwike, president ; Mr. P. F. Lee, 

 Dewsbury, and M. B. Slater, Malton, secretaries (both re-elected). 



Geology. — Rev. E. Maule Cole, M.A., Wetwang, president ; Messrs. S. A. 

 Adamson, F.G.S., Leeds, and S. Chad wick, Malton, secretaries (all re- 

 elected). 



Micro-Zoology and Botany.— Dr. H. C. Sorby, P\R.S., Sheffield, president; 

 Mr. J. M. Kirk, Doncaster, secretary (both re-elected). 



Afterwards tea was served in the A¥esleyan School-room in 

 Welhngton Road, and at 7 p.m. the Annual Public Meeting of 

 the Members and Associates was held in the Industrial Hall, when 

 there was a very large attendance. The chair was taken by the 

 president, Dr. Dallinger, who, after the annual report had been 

 read and the excursion programme announced for the benefit 

 of the members generally, delivered the annual address. He took 

 for his subject, ' My latest Lenses, and their most recent Work,' and 

 the lecture was illustrated by a large number of lantern-slides. 

 During the delivery of the address the chair was occupied by Mr. 

 C. P. Hobkirk, F.L.S., president of the Dewsbury Naturalists' 

 Society. A vote to the president was adopted on the motion of 

 Dr. Sorby, seconded by the Mayor of Dewsbury (Mr. Aid. T. B. 

 Fox); and afterwards a similar compliment to Mr. Hobkirk and 

 the Dewsbury Society, on the proposition of Dr. Dallinger and the 

 Rev. W. Fowler. 



In connection with the visit of the Union to Dewsbury, the 

 local society had organized an excellent conversazione, which 

 engaged the attention of the members and friends for the remainder 

 of the evening. This included a grand display of more than fifty 

 microscopes, numerous stereoscopes, collections of agates, plants, 

 shells, minerals, coins, birds' eggs, photographs, etc. Among the 

 more special exhibits, Dr. Sorby showed a series of his own drawings 

 of river and coast scenery in East Anglia, and Mr. G. T. Porritt, 

 F.L.S., on behalf of the Rev. John Hellins, a fine series of some 

 of the most exquisite drawings of lepidopterous larvae by the late 

 William Buckler, which are to be published by the Ray Society. 



May 1887. 



