YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1S95. II 



The Secretariate. — The whole of the secretarial and editorial 

 work of the Union has been this year carried out single-handed by 

 Mr. W. Denison Roebuck. Your Executive, while deeply sensible 

 of the debt which the Union owes to Mr. Roebuck for the singular 

 ability and the indomitable energy with which he has conducted the 

 affairs of the Union, do not think that the members should allow the 

 whole burden of the Secretariate to rest upon one man's shoulders. 

 They hope, therefore, that a colleague may shortly be found who 

 would be willing especially to take a share in organising the excursions 

 and meetings which form so conspicuous and so successful a feature 

 of the work of the Union. 



The Presidency for the ensuing year has been offered to and 

 accepted by Mr. John Cordeaux, so well-known to us all as an 

 ornithologist of high rank, and with -special claims upon this Union 

 by his authorship of so excellent and standard a work as ' The Birds 

 of the Humber District.' 



In conclusion, your Executive have to recognise in the name of 

 the members generally their profound sense of the honour which is 

 conferred upon the Union by the occupancy of its chair by so 

 acknowledged a master of his subject as the distinguished bryologist 

 whose brief tenure of office draws to-day to a close. 



