ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1 897. 7 



The Sub-committee which was appointed last year by the 

 General Committee to investigate the financial basis of the 

 Union have favoured your Executive with a copy of their report, 

 which is one in which your Executive have to express their 

 entire concurrence. The report is printed with this, and it only 

 remains for the new Executive, and for the members generally, 

 to spare no effort which is needed for putting" the Union in a 

 position to carry on its work of publication without financial 

 stress. 



Local Treasurers. — Your Executive recommend the re- 

 election of the Hon. Local Treasurers as follows: — Barnsley 

 E. G. Bayford ; Beverley: T. J. Morley; Bingley: H. Speight 

 Doncaster: Georg-e Winter; Goole : Thomas Bunker; Halifax 

 Arthur Crabtree ; Harrogate: Adam Millward ; Huddersfield 

 A. Clarke; Hull: John Stears; Malton : M. B. Slater, F.L.S. 

 Market Weighton : J. J. Marshall; Middlesbrough: T. F. Ward 

 Pickering: John Braim ; Redcar : T. H. Nelson, M.B.O.U. 

 Ripon : Wm. Gregson, F.G.S. ; Saltburn : Richard Barnes; Scar- 

 borough: J. H. Rowntree; Selby : W. Norwood Cheesman; 

 Sheffield: A. T. Watson; Skipton : J. J. Wilkinson; Spen 

 Valley: Albert Rothery; Wakefield: George Parkin; Whitby: 

 Thos. Newbitt ; York : G. C. Dennis, F.E.S. There are 

 vacancies for the following and other districts, and your 

 Executive would be glad if members would volunteer their 

 services in this capacity : — Boston Spa, Bradford, Bridlington, 

 Darlington, Dewsbur}-, Driffield, Keighley, Leeds, Richmond, 

 Rotherham, Sedbergh, Settle, and Thirsk. 



It is a great advantage to the Union to be represented by 

 the Hon. Local Treasurers, and your Executive would here 

 express the Hon. Treasurer's sense of indebtedness to them for 

 the assistance they render him. 



The Publications of the Union have been as in former 

 years, the ' Transactions ' and the ' Naturalist.' 



One Part, 20, of the ' Transactions ' was issued about this 

 time last year, and is devoted to various papers, including 

 Dr. Braithwaite's Presidential Address, delivered in 1895 ; the 

 long-delayed report on Yorkshire Lepidoptera for 1891, drawn 

 up by Mr. A. E. Hall ; and a further instalment of the 

 Rev. W. C. Hey's Catalogue of Yorkshire Beetles. 



Your Executive had hoped to be able to issue a further 

 instalment of the second edition of Mr. Baker's ' North 

 Yorkshire,' but Mr. M. B. Slater, F.L.S., in whose capable 

 hands the Mosses are in process of revision, and an entirely new 

 chapter on Hepatics is in preparation, has been unable to 



