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President: 

 Hy. Clifton Sorby, F.R.S., P.G.S., V.P.R.M.S., &c., Sheffield. 



Vice-President : 

 Rev. Wm. Fowler, M.A., Liversedge. 



Secretaries : 



George Brook, ter., F.R.M.S., Fernbrook, Huddersfield. 



Wm. Denison Roebuck, Sunny Bank, Leeds. 



THE SOCIETIES 



At present in the Union are the Huddersfield, Heckmondwike, Clayton-West, 

 Barnsley, Wakefield, Ovenden, Stainlard, Ripponden, Holmfirth, Liversedge, 

 Rastrick and Brighouse, Mirfield, Honley, Middlestown and Bradford Natural- 

 ists' Societies ; the Leeds Naturalists' Club and Scientific Association ; the 

 Goole Scientific Society ; the York and District Field Naturalists' Society ; the 

 Selby Naturalists' Society ; the Huddersfield Literary and Scientific Society ; 

 the Huddersfield Scientific Club ; the Conchological Society (Leeds) ; the 

 Sheffield Naturalists' Club ; the Leeds Geological Association ; the Bradford 

 Scientific Assdciation ; the Batley Field Naturalists' Society ; the Driffield 

 Literary and Scientific Society; and the tlull Microscopical and Field 

 Naturalists' Club. 



SECTIONS. 



For the better working of the various branches of Science, five Sections 

 have been formed, each having its own officers and committee. 



- The Officers of Sections will be glad to receive information from the 

 members, as the scope of the Sections will not he simply confined to the work 

 done at the meetings, but will embrace the investigation of the Natural 

 History of the County in its widest sense. 



Vertebr/lte Zoology. 

 President: E. HUNTER, F.C.S., Goole. 

 Secretary : TliOMAS LISTER, Victoria Crescent, Barnsley. 



CONCHOLOGY. 

 President : WILLIAM NELSON, Freehold Street, Leeds. 

 Secretary : JOHN W. TAYLOR, Leopold Square, Leeds. 



Entomology. 

 President : V^llAAKM. PREST, 13, Holgate Road, York. 

 Secretary: G. T. PORRITT, F.L.S., Huddersfield. 



Botany. 

 President: REV. W. FOWLER, M.A., Liversedge. 

 Secretary: H. FRANKLIN PARSONS, M.D., F.G.S., Goole. 



Geology. 

 President : THOMAS TATE, Rushton Villa, Thornbury, Bradford. 

 Secretary: JAMES SPENCER, 8, Salisbury Place, Akroydon, Plalifax. 



