YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION. 



34th ANNUAL REPORT, for 1895. 



The year which now draws to its close has witnessed no very 

 striking occurrences, but has been characterised by a considerable 

 amount of activity on the part of some of its committees of research, 

 and the continued success of the field meetings. 



The Meeting's held during the year have been seven in 

 number as usual, one for each division of the county, and a couple 

 of extra meetings for special investigations. 



The districts chosen for investigation and the dates of the 

 meetings were as follows : — 



May 13, Monday: Hole of Horcum. 



June 3, Whit-Monday : Broughton Woods (Joint Excursion with 



Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union). 

 June 22, Saturday : Flamborough. 

 Aug. 5, Bank Holiday Monday : Richmond. 

 Sep. 2, Monday : Bolton Abbey for TroUer's Gill. 



The usual descriptive circular for each excursion was issued to 

 members and associates. 



The opening excursion of the year was held at Pickering for 

 the investigation of the Hole of Horcum and the upper part of the 

 picturesque valley of Newtondale. The chair was occupied by 

 Mr. Samuel Chadwick, F.G.S., the President of the Geological 

 Section. In this connection your Executive wish to express their 

 sense of the great loss the Union as a working body sustains by the 

 removal from its district of Mr. Chadwick, who is now in New 

 Zealand, and Mr. R. H. Tiddeman, who is now stationed in South 

 Wales, both of whom the Union can ill afford to spare, and whom 

 it will be difficult to replace. 



The second excursion was a joint meeting with the Lincolnshire 

 Naturalists' Union in the splendid woods at Broughton, near Brigg. 

 It was a most successful gathering in every way, the ground including 

 the famous gullery at Twigmoor. The meetings were held at Brigg, 

 with Mr. F. M. Burton, F.L.S., the President of the Lincolnshire 

 Union, in the chair. This meeting was entirely on Lincolnshire 

 ground, but was preceded on the Saturday by a visit to Goole Moor, 

 with a view of observing the effects produced on it by the destructive 

 w^ork of the various peat-moss litter companies, who are rapidly 

 destroying the historic low-lying heaths of Goole Moor, Thorne 

 Waste, and Hatfield Chace. 



