ANNUAL REPORT FOR I90O. 85 



Local Secretaries. — Your Executive recommends the 

 re-election of the Hon. Local Secretaries as follows : — 

 Beverley, J. J. Marshall ; Bingley, H. Speight ; Doncaster, 

 Georg-e Winter ; Goole, Thomas Bunker ; Halifax, Arthur 

 Crabtree, F.L.S. ; Harrogate, K. McLean ; Huddersfield, A. 

 Clarke; Hull, John Stears ; Malton, M. B. Slater, F.L.S. ; 

 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 

 Cheesman ; Sheffield, A. T. Watson ; Skipton, J. J. Wilkinson ; 

 Spen Valley, Albert Rothery ; Whitby, Thomas Newbitt ; York, 

 H. J. Wilkinson. There are vacancies for the following and 

 other districts, and your Executive would be glad if members 

 v/ould volunteer their services in this capacity : — Barnsley, 

 Boston Spa, Bradford, Bridlington, Darlington, Dewsbury, 

 Driffield, Keighley, Leeds, Market Weighton, Richmond, 

 Rotherham, Saltburn, Sedbergh, Settle, Thirsk, and 

 Wakefield. 



It is a great advantage to the Union to be represented by 

 the Hon. Local Secretaries, and your Executive would here 

 express the hon. secretaries' sense of indebtedness to them for 

 the assistance which they render. 



Your Executive hopes that the Local Secretaries will keep 

 ever in mind that their mam function is not merely to collect sub- 

 scriptions, but to act as local representatives 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.' 



Part 22 of the ' Transactions ' has just been issued to the 

 members, and consists of the first instalment of a valuable 

 "Alga-Flora of Yorkshire," by Messrs. W. W^est, F.L.S., 

 and G. S. West, B.A., A.R.C.S. 



Another part, 23, 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. 



The completion of the second edition of Mr. Baker's 'North 

 Yorkshire ' is now assured — the revision of the Mosses and the 

 new list of Hepatics having been finished by Mr. M. B. Slater, 

 F.L.S., and finally approved by Mr. John Gilbert Baker, F.R.S., 

 F.L.S. 



'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 reputation which it has for many years enjoyed as the 



