YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION — ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1 896. 1 5 



For the excursions of the coming year, 1897, your Executive 

 recommend that the following programme of places and dates be 

 adopted : — 



For York Mid W.— Boston Spa, Easter Monday, April 19th. 



For Yorlc S.W.— Skelmanthorpe, Thursday, May 13th. 



For York N.W.— Cotherstone, Whit-Monday, June 7th. 



For York N.E. — Scarborough and Hackness, Saturday, July loth. 



For York S.E. — Everingham Park, Bank Holiday Monday, August 2nd. 



The Mycological Committee propose that the Fungus Foray 

 shall be held at Barnsley, at a date to be fixed, to suit the 

 circumstances of the case, in September, and your Executive have 

 pleasure in recommending that the request be complied with. 



For the Annual Meeting of next year (1897), invitations will 

 be presented by the Societies at Darlington and at Scarborough, and 

 it will be for the General Committee to decide which of these shall 

 be accepted. 



The Societies which constitute the Union are now thirty-six in 

 number, the same number as last year, there having been no changes. 



The Statistics which the Secretaries of the different Societies 

 have again been kind enough to furnish, show a slight decrease in 

 the number of associates, the aggregate membership of the thirty-six 

 Societies now amounting to 2,449, a decrease of 118. Adding to 

 this the number of direct members, the total numerical strength of 

 the Union is 2,906. 



The Membership now stands at 457, being 25 Life Members, 

 4 Honorary Life Members, and 428 Ordinary Members, a net 

 increase of but 8 on last year. 



During the year 28 new members have been elected, while a 

 few have resigned and others have been struck off the roll for 

 non-payment of subscriptions. 



The Death-roll has been heavy during the year. The Union 

 has lost two of its ex-Presidents, Mr. Henry Seebohm, the dis- 

 tinguished ornithologist, and Prof. A. H. Green, the eminent 

 Professor of Geology at Oxford, both of them suddenly, in the 

 prime of hfe. It has also to deplore the untimely decease of 

 Mr. Thos. Hick, the chairman of its Fossil Flora Committee, and 

 one of the oldest members of the Union ; while in the Rev. H. F. 

 Barnes-Lawrence it loses one to whom is due the first inception of 

 the Wild Birds Protection Acts ; and in Mr. A. G. More, of Dublin, 

 a Yorkshireman who has done much for the promotion of natural 

 science in Ireland. The names of Mr. G. G. lanson, of Wakefield, 

 and Mr. S. T. Scrope, J. P., D.L., of Danby-super-Yore, also appear 



