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1879. 



President: 



Hy. Clifton Sorby, LL.D., F.R.S., Pres.G.S., &c., Sheffield. 



^ Vice-President : 



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



Secretaries : 



George Brook, ten, F.LS., Fernbrook, Huddersfield. 



Wm. Denison Roebuck, Sunny Bank, Leeds. 



THE SOCIETIES 



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

 Barnsley, Wakefield, Ovenden, Elland-cum-Greetland, Ripponden, Holmfirth, 

 Liversedge, Rastrick-Gum-Brighouse, Mirfield, Honley, Middlestown, and 

 Bradford Naturalists' Societies ; Leeds Naturalists' Club and Scientific Associa- 

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

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

 Huddersfield Scientific Club ; Conchological Society (Leeds) ; Sheffield 

 Naturalists' Club ; Leeds Geological Association ; Bradford Scientific Associa- 

 tion ; Driffield Literary and Scientific Society ; and Dewsbury Naturalists' 

 Society. 



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 Vvill not be 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. 



B. Vertebrate Zoology. 

 President: THOMAS LISTER, Victoria Crescent, Barnsley. 

 Secretary: W. E. CLARKE, 5, East View, Hyde Park Road, Leeds. 



C. CONCHOLOGY. 

 President :']OliK CONACHER, jun., 



Lothian Place, Spring Wood, Huddersfield. 

 Secrefari/; JOSEPH WILCOCK, Northgate, Wakefield. 



Z>. Entomology. 

 President: WILLIAM PREST, 13, Holgate Road, York. 

 Secretary: S. D. BAIRSTOW, Woodland Mount, Huddersfield. 



E. Botany.' 

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



„ . . J H- FRANKLIN PARSONS, M.D., F.G.S., Goole. 

 becretaries. <^ WILLIAM WEST, 15, Horton Lane, Bradford. 



F. Geology. 



President: PROF. A. H. GREEN, M.A., F.G.S., 



. The Yorkshire College, Leeds. 

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



