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and the resolution was then by leave withdrawn. The discussion 

 was a very useful one, and clearly indicated that the corre- 

 sponding- societies themselves do not give that attention to the 

 work of the conference of delegates which is desirable, if the 

 meetings are to be of real use to local societies. At the second 

 meeting an interesting paper was read by Prof. L. C. Miall, 

 F.R. S., on Dew Ponds. At the request of the Y.N.U. delegate 

 the local committee at Bradford was cordially thanked for their 

 courtesy in placing a room entirely at the disposal of the con- 

 ference for the whole of the meeting instead of, as has been the 

 case heretofore, for the two delegates' meetings only. 



Winter Programme. — For some time past it has been 

 felt that it is desirable that the work of the Union should be 

 brought more into evidence during the winter season, and that 

 its claims to both financial and scientific support should be more 

 forcibly and eff'ectually brought before the public. Arrangements 

 are accordingly being made to have lectures, papers, demonstra- 

 tions, and exhibits to be given by members at the meetings of 

 such of the associated societies as are wishful to include them 

 in their programmes. 



The Year 1901. — Your Executive has to draw the 

 attention of the members to the fact that next year — 1901 — will 

 be the twenty-fifth of active and systematic work carried on 

 continuously from the time that the West Riding Consolidated 

 Naturalists' Society was re-organized and assumed its present 

 title of Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. It is proposed to celebrate 

 this by restoring as far as possible the conditions which obtained 

 in the year 1877. For this object it is proposed to repeat the 

 excursions to Wetherby and to Went Vale, and to accept the 

 invitation of the Wakefield Society to hold the Annual Meeting 

 in that city. In harmony with this idea, it is proposed that 

 the excursions in the S.E., N.E., and N.W. divisions be to 

 Brough, to Scarborough, and to Masham, being- the places first 

 visited by the Union in those divisions of the county. For the 

 same reason, the Rev. William Fowler, M.A., of Liversedge, 

 has been invited to occupy next year the office of President, 

 which he so worthily filled in the year 1877, and it is respect- 

 fully sug-gested to the Sections that they should each select their 

 President from among- those members who were upon the roll 

 for the year 1877, and your Executive ventures to submit that 

 the following list of names aff"ords ample liberty of choice of 

 members fully worthy of becoming Vice-Presidents of the Union 

 during Mr. Fowler's second year of presidency : — 



