YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1 895. 5 



One new Society has been admitted during the year, the Milns- 

 bridge Naturahsts' Society, but this accession is balanced by the 

 amalgamation of the Hull Field Naturalists' Society with the Hull 

 Scientific Ckib. 



The Statistics which the Secretaries of the different Societies 

 have again been good enough to furnish, show a considerable 

 increase in the number of associates, the aggregate membership 

 of the thirty-six Societies now amounting to 2,567, an increase of 

 284. Adding to this the number of direct members, the total 

 numerical strength is 3,016. 



The Membership now stands at 449, being 28 Life Members, 

 4 Honorary Life Members, and 417 Ordinary Members. 



During the year 2 1 new members have been elected, while a 

 few have resigned and others have been struck off the roll for 

 non-payment of subscriptions. 



The Union has to deplore several losses by death during the 

 year, including gentlemen like Mr. Basil T. Woodd and Mr. T. W. 

 Tew, whose sympathies with such societies as ours lead them 

 to extend to a sympathetic though necessarily passive support. 

 The Union has also lost active workers by the decease of the 

 Rev. Wm. Thompson of Sedbergh, whose papers on the topography 

 and botany of that district are well known ; Mr. George Tindall 

 of Newmarket and formerly of Doncaster, an active entomologist 

 and at one time a local Treasurer of the Union ; and Mr. J. M. 

 Kirk, of Doncaster, the secretary of our own Micro-Zoology 

 Committee. A noticeable feature of our death-roll, too, is the 

 first break made in the long succession of our ex-presidents by 

 the decease of Professor W. C. Williamson, F.R.S., who occupied 

 the chair of the Union in 1881 and 1882 ; and the first gap caused 

 in the list of Life Members by the recent decease of Mr. Joshua 

 Buckton. 



The Financial position of the Union still continues to be 

 a source of anxiety to your Executive. Although the liabilities of 

 the Union are no more than the outstanding subscriptions due from 

 members would liquidate, your Treasurer and the local Treasurers 

 who so materially aid him in his labours, have a considerable amount 

 of labour in endeavouring to collect the subscriptions, and your 

 Executive trust that the members in arrear will assist the Hon. 

 Treasurers by a prompt discharge of their liabilities. 



Your Executive very much regret that owing to their Honorary 

 Secretary being single-handed, and the occurrence of other circum- 

 stances of an exceptional character, they have been prevented taking 

 steps to carry out the recommendations of the Special Committee 



