Io8 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION. 



tion, but your presence here proves you to be in thoroug-h 

 sympathy with those who are wilHng to do it, and we ask )'ou 

 to help us by becoming- subscribing- members. 



It now only remains for me to thank all the members for 

 the courtesy and forbearance I have received at their hands 

 during- my 3^ear of office, and to express my g-ratification and 

 pleasure, that in the opening- year of the new century, the 

 chair will ag-ain be occupied by the g-entleman who was the 

 Union's President nearly 25 years ag-o, and who during- the whole 

 of the intervening- years has been one of the most active and 

 most esteemed of its members. 



John Waddington, Printer, 38, Great Wilson Street, Leeds 



