lO YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1 895. 



Mr. Butterell is engaged on some bibliographical work which will 

 probably be ready for publication during the ensuing year. 



Mr. J. Frazer Robinson, of Hull, has paid considerable attention to 

 the Marine Algse of the coast of the East Riding, and the information 

 he has collected will be in the hands of the Committee in due course. 



Wild Birds' Eggs Committee. — The Bill which was alluded 

 to in the last report has become law under the title of the ' Wild 

 Birds Protection Act, 1894.' Its main provision is that 'a Secretary 

 of State may upon application by the County Council of any 

 administrative county by order prohibit — 



1. The taking or destroying of wild birds' eggs in any year or 

 years in any place or places within that county ; or 



2. The taking or destroying the eggs of any specified kind of 

 wild birds within that county or part or parts thereof, as recom- 

 mended by the said County Council and set forth in the said order. 



3. The application by the County Council shall specify the limits 

 of the place or places, or otherwise, the particular species of wild 

 birds to which it is proposed that any prohibition in the order is to 

 apply, and shall set forth the reasons on account of which the 

 application is made.' 



The Act provides that any person convicted of taking or 

 destroying the eggs of any wild birds in a specified area, or the eggs 

 of any species of wild bird named in an order shall ' pay for every 

 egg so taken or destroyed a sum not exceeding one pound.' 



Under the provisions of this Act the County Council of the 

 East Riding has prohibited the taking of any eggs j for five years 

 from an area which includes Spurn Point. The same County 

 Council have also added another fortnight to the close time in the 

 East Riding of Yorkshire. 



The Mycological Committee.— Mr. Charles Crossland, its 

 secretary, reports that the Committee has done steady and systematic 

 investigation during the season. Not only has the principal Fungus 

 Foray been held, the centre of operations being Huddersfield, with 

 Mr. Massee, Dr. Cooke, Mr. Rea, Mr. Rose, and the local members of 

 the Committee present, but a series of rambles in the West Riding 

 have been held with good results. 



British Association. — The Union has again been appointed 

 on€ of the Corresponding Societies of the Association, and was 

 represented at the Ipswich meeting, in the unavoidable absence 

 of the Rev. E. P. Knubley, M.A., by Mr. M. B. Slater, F.L.S., who 

 reports that at the conferences special attention was again devoted 

 to a discussion on local museums, and the best manner in which they 

 might be made available for scientific and educational purposes. 



