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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS UNION. 



The separate account for 'The Naturalist' is as follows, 

 showing- a deficiency against which has to be set a considerable 

 amount of stock of back volumes and numbers : — 



'THE NATURALIST.' 



£ 



Receipts in 1899 130 



Do. do. 18 



Subscriptions owing- 30 



Balance 



£178 13 2 

 12 12 4 



;fit9i 



Payments in 1S99 140 15 o 



Liabilities to end ot 1899 50 10 6 



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Local Treasurers. — Your Executive recommend the re- 

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

 T. J. Morley ; Bingley, 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, Wm. Gregson, F.G.S.; 

 Scarborough, J. H. Rowntree ; Selby, W. Norwood Chqesman ; 

 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: — Barnsley, Boston Spa, Bradford, Bridlington, 

 Darlington, Dewsbury, Driffield, Keighley, Leeds, Richmond, 

 Rotherham, Saltburn, 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. 



Your Executive propose that in future these officers shall be 

 entitled ' Local Secretaries,' inasmuch as their function is not 

 merely to collect subscriptions, but to act as local representa- 

 tives in a much broader sense, and to keep the Union and. its 

 objects constantly in view, whether by way of enlisting new 

 members or by keeping the Executive constantly informed as to 

 local scientific occurrences. 



The Publications of the Union have been as in former 

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



Another part, 22, of the Transactions is now in the printer's 

 hands, and it is hoped to issue it very shortly. It includes 

 Mr. W. Hewett's report on Yorkshire Lepidoptera. 



