8 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1 895. 



The Yorkshire coal-field has been mapped out and sub-districts 

 placed under the following gentlemen's supervision : — Leeds, 

 B. Holgate, F.G.S., J. Stubbins, F.G.S. ; Halifax, James Spencer, 

 Robert Law, F.G.S. ; Low Moor, W. Cash, F.G.S., W. Simpson, 

 F.G.S. ; Barnsley, W. Hemingway ; Wakefield, W. West, F.L.S. ; 

 Bradford, J. E. Wilson. 



The Committee cordially invite the co-operation of colliery 

 proprietors, mining engineers, working miners, and, indeed, of all 

 who may be in a position to help. Printed instructions as to the 

 collection of specimens will be forwarded to anyone who will apply 

 to any member of the Committee. 



For the Geological Photographs Committee Mr. J. E. 

 Bedford, F.G.S., its Secretary, reports that 112 views of subjects in 

 Yorkshire, Scotland, Devon, and Cornwall, have been contributed, 

 mainly by the energetic labours of the Chairman of the Committee, 

 Mr. Godfrey Bingley, to whose work special reference is made by 

 the British Association Committee in their report. Yorkshire still 

 maintains its pre-eminence, for more prints have been contributed 

 by our Committee than from any other district in the kingdom. 



The Yorkshire Boulder Committee, 1895. — This Committee 

 has continued its work during the year chiefly in the Calder Valley. 

 As the result of recent excavations, they have settled the vexed 

 question as to the direction in which the Erratics entered this 

 valley. 



Glacial deposits have also been reported from Saltburn, 

 Rokeby, Baldersby, Burstwick, and Holderness. 



The Committee have devoted tv.-o days to the investigation of 

 the York Moraines, a report of which will shortly be issued. 



The mapping of the Coast Erratics is being diligently prose- 

 cuted by the East-Riding Boulder Committee. 



The Coast Erosion Committee. — The Rev. E. Maule Cole, 

 the Secretary of this Committee, reports that the Erosion of the 

 Yorkshire Coast is after all so slow a process that it is impossible to 

 give reports annually, only when something striking occurs. No 

 observations have been made this year. 



Micro-Zoology and Micro-Botany Committee. — The 



Committee appointed for the investigation of the Cryptogamic 

 Flora and Invertebrate Fauna of the Freshwaters of Yorkshire has 

 suffered a heavy loss since our last Annual Meeting in the lamented 

 death of its Secretary, Mr. J. M. Kirk. In his place Mr. M. H. 

 Stiles kindly consented to take up the secretaryship. He reports 

 that the Yorkshire Micro-Zoology and Micro-Botany Committee 



