go YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS UNION. 



It is recommended that the Committee be re-elected as 

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

 M. H. Stiles, F. R. M.S., 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 ; Wm. West, F.L.S., Bradford; and Georg-e Winter, 

 F.R.M.S., Doncaster. 



The Yorkshire Coleoptera Committee. — Mr. M. L. 



Thompson, the Secretary, reports that the work of this com- 

 mittee has been continued with vig-our during" the year ; and 

 that members who attended meetings of the Union have 

 investigated the districts visited as far as the time at their 

 diposal would allow, the meeting at Askham Bog, York, being 

 the most productive of interesting results. The increased 

 interest manifested in Coleoptera is noted with satisfaction; but 

 the beetle fauna of many promising districts is yet practically 

 unknown, and whilst gladly acknowledging the valuable 

 assistance rendered by other members of the Union who are not 

 coleopterists, it is hoped that an increased number will be 

 disposed to further the special work of the committee during 

 the coming year. No further portions of the list of Yorkshire 

 Coleoptera have been published, the secretary being still 

 engaged in the preparation of the list of Clavicornia, and the 

 species belonging to the remaining groups. 



It is recommended that the Committee be re-appointed as 

 follows : — Rev. W. C. Hey, M.A., West Ayton, Chairman ; 

 M. L. Thompson, Saltburn, Convener ; E. G. Bayford, 

 Barnsley ; H. H. Corbett, M.R.C.S., Doncaster ; W. Foggitt, 

 J. P., Thirsk ; John Gardner," F.E.S., Hartlepool; Joseph 

 Neale, B.A. , Ackworth ; H. Ostheide, Leeds ; and W. Denison 

 Roebuck, F.L. S., Leeds. 



Yorkshire Boulder Committee. — Mr. J. H. Howarth, 

 F.G.S., the secretary, reports that the work of the committee 

 has been continued throughout the year with unremitting energy, 

 especially in the North and East Ridings ; and, although the 

 actual records may be less numerous than heretofore, a keen 

 look out for any new facts is maintained by many watchful 

 observers over a large area. It is now abundantly shown that 

 Scandinavian rocks are not only distributed many miles inland 

 from the coast, but that they reach high levels. Shap Granite 

 and the Norwegian Rhomb Porphyry lie side by side in the 

 Burstwick gravel pit in Holderness, and in a quarry of thick 

 glacial gravel at 600 feet O.D. above the Railway Station at 

 Peak. Rhomb Porphyry, found last year at 810 feet O.D. in 

 the Lockwood Hills, is again reported at 650 feet O.D. 8 miles 

 west of Whitby. Careful examination by Mr. John Burton of a 

 new rock surface exposure in his district adds to previous 

 records that there is no evidence of a glacier in the Calder lower 



