34 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS UNION. 



Local Treasurers. — Your Executive recommend the re- 

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

 E. G. Bayford ; Beverley, T. J. Morley ; Bing-ley, H. Speight; 

 Doncaster, George Winter ; Goole, Thomas Bunker ; Halifax, 

 Arthur Crabtree ; Harrogate, K. McLean ; 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, Wni. Gregson, F.G.S.; Saltburn, Richard Barnes; Scar- 

 borough, J. H. Rowntree ; Sedbergh, Rev. J. H. Mackie, 

 M.A., F.G.S. ; Selby, W. Norwood Cheesman; Sheffield, 

 A. T. Watson; Skipton, J. J. Wilkinson; Spen Valley, 

 Albert Rothery ; Wakefield, George Parkin; Whitby, Thos. 

 Newbitt; York, H. J. Wilkinson. 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, 

 Dewsbury, Driffield, Keighley, Leeds, Richmond, Rotherham, 

 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, 21, of the 'Transactions' was issued in the spring 

 of this year, and was devoted to a further instalment of Mr. 

 Kidston's Report on the Yorkshire Fossil Flora. 



With respect to the continuation of the second edition of 

 Mr. J. G. Baker's 'North Yorkshire,' your Executive are pleased 

 to learn from Mr. M. B. Slater, F.L.S., to whom was entrusted 

 the revision of the Mosses, and the addition of a list of the 

 Hepatics, that his task is nearly completed, and that he hopes 

 to furnish the MS. during the winter. 



The 'Naturalist' has been published monthly during the 

 year under the sole editorship of Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, 

 F.L.S., under whose direction it has fully sustained the reputa- 

 tion which it has for many years enjoyed as the recognised 

 medium for the publication of natural history observations for 

 the whole of the North of England. 



Your Executive and the Editor would again take this oppor- 

 tunity of reminding members that the Journal has always been 

 sufficiently catholic in its scope to welcome articles dealing with 

 the life history of animals and plants as observed in the northern 



