38 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION. 



It is recommended that the Committee be re-elected as 

 follows: — H. C. Sorby, LL.D., F.R.S., Sheffield, Chairman; 

 M. H. Stiles, Doncaster, Convener ; J. Newton Coombe, 

 Sheffield; Prof. Alfred Denny, F.L.S., Sheffield; Charles P. 

 Hobkirk, F.L.S., Ilkley ; F. W. Mills, F.R.M.S., Hudders- 

 field; John Stubbins, F.G.S., F.R.M.S., Pool; and W. West, 

 F.L.S., Bradford; your Executive regretting that Mr. C. B. 

 •Crawshaw — by reason of pressure of other work — finds it 

 needful to withdraw his name from the Committee. 



The Yorkshire Marine Biology Committee. — The Hon. 

 Secretaries, Mr. J. D. Butterell and Mr. F. W. Fierke, report 

 that the excursions this year have not afforded facilities for the 

 operations of this Committee — except that at Easington a number 

 of zoophytes were collected by Mr. R. H. Philip. The biblio- 

 graphical work of the Committee has progressed steadily, 

 though but slowly, and no lists are as yet ripe for publica- 

 tion. 



It is recommended that the Committee be re-elected as 

 follows: — H. C. Sorby, LL.D., F.R.S., Sheffield, Chairman; 

 J. D. Butterell, Wansford ; Fred. W. Fierke, M.C.S., Hull, 

 Joint Conveners ; W. Cash, F.G.S., Halifax ; W. Eagle Clarke, 

 F.L.S., Edinburgh; John Cordeaux, M.B.O.U., Great Cotes; 

 Oxley Grabham,\M.A., York; Rev. W. C. Hey, M. A., West 

 Ayton; E. Howarth, F. R.A.S., F.Z.S., Sheffield ; G. Massee, 

 F.R.M.S., Kew; T. H. Nelson, M.B.O.U., Redcar ; T. Fetch, 

 B.A., B.Sc, Hedon ; J. Frazer Robinson, Hull; W. Denison 

 Roebuck, F.L. S., Leeds; Rev. Henry Smith, M.A., Redcar; 

 and Arnold T. Watson, F.L.S., Sheffield. 



The Yorkshire Wild Birds' and Eggs Protection 

 Committee. — Mr. Oxley Grabham, M.A., who was selected as 

 Chairman and Convener in the place of the Rev. E. P. Knubley, 

 M.A., reports that the Committee note with great satisfaction 

 that, owing to the stringent and effective protection afforded to 

 the colony of Lesser Terns at the Spurn, under the aegis of the 

 East Riding County Council, this colony, which at one time 

 was threatened with destruction owing to indiscriminate egg- 

 collecting on the part of collectors, now numbers one hundred 

 pairs of birds. Moreover, about the same number of Ringed 

 Plover have bred in the locality, and two or three pairs of Sheld 

 Ducks. 



It is recommended that the Committee be re-elected as 

 follows: — Oxley Grabham, M.A., M.B.O.U., York, Chairman 

 -and Convener; James Backhouse, F.Z.S., Harrogate; F. Boyes, 

 Beverley; T. Bunker, Goole ; H. E. Dresser, F.L.S., F.Z.S., 



