BOTANICAL SECTION: ANNUAL MEETINGS, ETC. 



YOEKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION. 

 BOTANICAL SECTION. 



The Third Annual Meeting was held at Huddersfield 

 on Jan. 17th, 18S0, when the preceding report was handed in to 

 the Section. 



The officers elected for 1880 were: — 



President: C. P. Hobkirk, F.L.S., Huddersfield. 

 Secretary for Phanerogamic Botany: 



F. Arnold Lees, F.L.S., Wetherby. 

 Secretary for Cryptogamic Botany: 



William West, Bradford. 



The Section is much indebted to the following gentlemen 

 for assistance in the determination of critical species: — Messrs. 

 H. Boswell, F. Arnold Lees, the Revs. J. Fergusson and J. 

 Stevenson, and other botanists. 



The Fourth Annual Meeting was held in the city ot 



York on the 15th of January, 1881, when the officers for 1880 



were re-elected for 1881, with a Committee consisting of the 



following members : — 



Thomas Birks, jun., Goole. 



W. Norwood Cheesman, Selby. 



Rev. William Fowler, M.A., Liversedge. 



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



George E. Massee, Scarborough. 



H. T. SoppiTT, Saltaire. 



George Webster, York. 



The Phanerogamic Report for the preceding year, written by 

 Dr. Lees, follows on the next page. 



The Cryptogamic Report, written by Mr. West, was published 

 in the 'Naturalist,' for April, June, July, August and September, 

 i88i,vol. vi., p. 133—7, 166—8, 181— 3;vii., 11— 15 and 30— 33 



