YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1895. 7 



The 'Naturalist' has been pubUshed monthly during the year 

 under the sole editorship of Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S., 

 under whose painstaking management it has fully sustained the 

 reputation which it has of late years enjoyed, and is now the 

 recognised medium for natural history publications for the whole 

 of the North of England. 



Your Executive and the Editor would take this opportunity of 

 reminding members that the journal is sufficiently catholic in its 

 scope to welcome articles dealing with the life-history of animals 

 and plants as observed in the northern counties, as well as with 

 any biological and general considerations that the local observations 

 give rise to. 



The Library continues to grow, a fact which has caused your 

 Executive to take into consideration whether the time has not come 

 when it is desirable to find a permanent home for what is now 

 a valuable collection. The advantages to science which would 

 result from transferring the library to some public institution in the 

 county are many, and your Executive feels it a duty to make any 

 arrangement in its power to increase the accessibility of books and 

 pamphlets to members, and to open to every student a collection of 

 books and reprints, many of which are rare, and by far the majority 

 not in any public library in the county. A sub-committee consisting 

 of Messrs. Benjamin Holgate, W. Denison Roebuck, Albert H. 

 Pawson, and Leonard Hawkesworth has been appointed to deal 

 with the matter. Several meetings of this committee have already 

 been held, and they are now in negotiation with a large public 

 institution for carrying out this project; but until they are further 

 advanced it is not desirable to enter into any further details. 



The Sections of the Union have more or less steadily carried 

 on their work, but the attendance at some of them during the 

 past year has not been quite so satisfactory as your Executive 

 could have desired. As the success of the field excursions 

 depends very materially upon the presence of the Union's best 

 workers in every department, it is to be hoped that members will 

 use every effort to support the sectional and general officers by 

 their presence at as many excursions as is possible. 



The Committee of Research have continued their investi- 

 gations during the year with very satisfactory results. 



For the Yorkshire Fossil Flora Committee Mr. W. Cash, 

 F.G.S., its Secretary, reports that the Committee have not done much 

 work during the past year, beyond a little collecting. They have, 

 however, under the new presidency of Mr. Thomas Hick, B.A., &c., 

 taken steps to insure some work being done during the coming year. 



