6 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION — ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1895. 



which reported last year, but they propose that immediate action 

 shall now be taken, and they trust they may receive the active and 

 energetic support of the members and associates in their endeavour 

 to put the Union on a sound financial basis. 



One of the recommendations made by the Committee was to the 

 effect that a special subscription list be raised of at least ;^i5o, in 

 order that the outstanding printers' bills might be discharged and 

 the pubhcation of Transactions proceeded with. Your Executive 

 have the gratification of reporting that although no appeal whatever 

 was made to the members in pursuance of this recommendation, 

 several sums have been spontaneously given as follows : — 



£ s. d. 



Mr. A. H. Pawson 10 10 o 



Mr. J. W. Dunning 10 o o 



Mr. J. H. Rowntree 220 



Mr, R. H. Tiddeman 220 



Mr. J. H. Howarth i i o 



An Anonymous Donor ... ... ... ... 020 



Your Executive need hardly add that they will be pleased to receive 

 such donations as members are disposed to contribute. 



They would, however, urge upon the members generally the 

 paramount necessity of a simultaneous effort being made this winter 

 to bring about a large accession of membership. For there can be 

 no doubt that there are hundreds of persons in our county who are 

 in sympathy with the Union's aims, and who would if its claims 

 were brought before them, feel it their duty to give the Union their 

 active support. 



The Publications of the Union have been as in former years. 

 Of the Transactions there has been no part issued during the year, 

 the reason being that the authors of the various works which are 

 in progress have not been prepared to furnish the requisite MSS. 

 With regard to Baker's ' North Yorkshire,' your Executive have had 

 the pleasure of learning from Mr. M. B. Slater, F.L.S., who is 

 revising the hst of mosses, that he has completed about four-fifths of 

 the list, and that he fully hopes to complete the whole this winter. 

 The list of Hepatic^e, which he will add, is also drafted out and will 

 shortly be completed. The Rev. W. C. Hey writes that his List of 

 Yorkshire Coleoptera is ready to the end of the Brachelytra, and that 

 he has not been able to commence the list of Clavicornia for want of 

 sufficient material, that and some of the following groups of beetles 

 not having received so much attention at the hands of Yorkshire 

 Coleopterists as have the Geodephaga and Hydradephaga. Your 

 Executive are not in receipt of reports from the other authors 

 of uncompleted works. 



