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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS UNION. 



The fourth meetingf was held at Reeth, during' the August 

 Bank Hohday week-end. Considering the inaccessibility of the 

 district, there was a fair attendance. The three days were spent 

 in the investigation of the natural history and geology of Arken- 

 gfarthdale, and much useful work was done. The Union was 

 particularly fortunate in its leaders on this occasion, Mr. J. G. 

 Goodchild, F.G. S., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., coming specially from 

 Edinburgh, and Mr. J. E. Tinkler from Leytonstone. The 

 success of the meeting was somewhat interfered with by the bad 

 weather which prevailed. - ^^ 



The fifth meeting was held at Grassing-ton, for the week- 

 end Septernber 8th to loth, in connection with the Bradford 

 Meeting of the British Association, a number of leading" 

 members of which availed themselves of the Union's invitation 

 to take part, in the excursion. A fair number of our own 

 members attended, and the meeting was very successful. As 

 this meeting was in addition to the usual programme, extra 

 expense was involved, to meet which an appeal has been sent 

 out to our members, which has already met with some response. 



The list of botanists and zoolog'ists present at this Grassing"- 

 ton excursion, included, amongst others : — 



Lister Rotheray, Skipton. 



Dr. A. H. Trow. 



Gwynne Vaug'han, M.A., Glasgow 

 University. 



Harold Wager, F.L.S., Leeds. 



Prof. H. Marshall Ward, Sc.D., 

 M.A., F.R.S., Member of 

 Council of B.A., Cambridge. 



Dr. Watson, Ex-President Edin- 

 burgh Botanical Society. 



William West, F.L.S., Bradford, 

 and 



LI. Williams, A.R.C.S. 



J. Beaiiland, Bradford. 



V. Crawford, Secretary Edinburgh 



Naturalists' Field Club. 

 Charles Crossland, F.L.S., Halifax. 

 J. E. Crowther, Elland. 

 Rev. E. P. Knubley, M.A., 



M.B.O.U., Steeple Ashton, 



Wiltshire. 

 C. E. Moss, B.Sc., Halifax. 

 Prof. R. W. Phillips, M.A., Sc.D., 



Bangor. 

 Fred. Rhodes, Bradford. 

 W. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S., 



Leeds. 



The list of g'eologists is given in another place. 



' The sixth meeting was held at Whitby on August 15th. 

 The naturalists spent the day in Mulgrave Woods, and the 

 geologists examined the coast sections between Sandsend and 

 Kettleness. This meeting was followed by the annual Fungus 

 Foray in the neighbourhood of Lythe, some very g-ood work 

 being done. 



Your Executive wishes to express its satisfaction at the 

 general success of the year's metings, which has been con- 

 siderably enhanced by the presence of the President at all 

 except one of them. Whilst doing so it wishes to point out the 

 regrettable tendency of many members and associates not to 

 avail themselves of the arrangements which are made, often at 

 much trouble, for the carrying- out of the meetings. For 

 instance, a guarantee for a certain number has to be g^iven for 

 the tea, in order to secure a room for the meeting, and many 



