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amongst the fung-i of the neighbourhood of Hebden Bridge, 

 and has sent upwards of 400 species to the Secretary of this 

 Committee. It is recommended that the Committee be re- 

 appointed as follows : — Rev. William Fowler, M.A., Liversedge, 

 Chairman; Charles Crossland, Halifax, Hon. Sec. ; Thomas Birks, 

 Rochdale; U. Bairstow, Halifax; W. Norwood Cheesman, 

 Selby ; Alfred Clarke, Huddersfield ; Geo. Massee, F.R.M.S., 

 F.L.S., Kew ; James Needham, Hebden Bridge ; H. T. Soppitt, 

 Halifax ; J. Williams Sutcliffe, Halifax ; and Harold W. T. 

 Wager, F.L.S., Leeds. 



Proposed New Committees. — Your Executive recommend 

 that two new Committees be appointed, one for Bryology and 

 one for Coleoptera. 



Proposed Yorkshire Bryological Committee. — The new 

 arrang-ement begun at the present annual meeting, whereby 

 excursions will be organized in November in connection with the 

 annual meetings, a:nd the fact that the bryologists of Yorkshire 

 are a numerous, able, and enthusiastic body, renders it desirable 

 that encouragement should be given to systematic investi- 

 g"ation in their department, and it is therefore recommended 

 that Mr. R. Barnes, Saltburn, R. Braithwaite, M.D., F.L.S., 

 London, LI. J. Cocks, Harrogate, Charles Crossland, Halifax, 

 Charles P. Hobkirk, F.L. S., Dewsbury, William Ingham, B.A. , 

 York, J. J. Marshall, Market Weighton, James Needham, 

 Hebden Bridge, Matthew B. Slater, F.L.S., Malton, H. T. 

 Soppitt, Halifax, and William West, F.L.S., Bradford, be 

 appointed as a Yorkshire Bryological Committee, for the investi- 

 gation of the brj'ophytal fauna of Yorkshire. 



Proposed Yorkshire Coleoptera Committee. — Your 

 Executive recommend that a committee be appointed, con- 

 sisting of the Rev. W. C. Hey, M.A., West Ayton, 

 Chairman ; Mr. M. Lawson Thompson, ' Saltburn, Hon. 

 Secretary ; Messrs. E. G. Bayford, Barnsley ; Herbert H. 

 Corbett, Doncaster; W. Fog'g'itt, Thirsk; John Gardner, F.E.S., 

 Hartlepool ; Leonard Hawkesworth, Leeds ; Joseph Neale, B.A., 

 Ackworth ; and W. Denison Roebuck, F.L. S., Leeds, for the 

 purpose of working out the beetles of Yorkshire at the excur- 

 sions and elsewhere, and also of arranging for continuing the 

 List of Yorkshire Coleoptera which the Rev. W. C. Hey, M.A., 

 has completed to the end of the Brachelytra, and the continua- 

 tion of which he is obliged to relinquish by reason of the failure 

 of his eye-sight. 



Your Executive have further to recommend, in connection 

 with this subject, that Mr. Hey be elected an Honorary Life 



