YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION: 

 BOTANICAL SECTION. 



The Second Annual Meeting of the Section was held 

 at Leeds on Jan. nth, 1879, when the first part of the following 

 report, relating to the observations made at the several excursions 

 of the Union, was read and adopted, and it was resolved that a 

 supplement should be added, containing a summary of the principal 

 observations relating to Yorkshire Botany which have been made 

 or published during the past year. 



A list of the Mosses of the East Riding, compiled by the 

 Secretary of the Section, was also adopted for publication. 



The officers elected for 1879 were : — 

 President : 

 Rev. WILLIAM FOWLER, M.A., Liversedge. 



Secretaries : 



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



WILLIAM WEST, Bradford. 



The thanks of the Section are due to Prof Babington, Mr. 

 F. A. Lees, Mr. H. Boswell, Dr. Carrington, the Revs. W. A. 

 Leighton, J. Fergusson, and J. Stevenson, Mr. Tuffen West, Mr. 

 W. Phillips, and other botanists, for assistance in naming and 

 verifying many of the more difficult and doubtful specimens. 



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