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 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS UNION. 



FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT, FOR 1902 



Your Executive has pleasure in submitting' the toUowing" 

 report of the operations of the Union and its Sections and 

 Committees for the past year. 



The Meeting's held during- the _\ear have been seven in 

 number ; the usual one for each division of the countv and a 

 fungus Foray. 



The districts chosen for investigfation and the dates of the 

 meetings were as follows : — 



October 17th, 190 1 — Annual Meeting- at Wakefield. 



Whit-Monday, May 19th — Coxwold for Roulston Scar and Kilburn. 



Saturday, June 14th — North Grimston. 



Thursda}-, Jul}- loth — Doncaster for Bawtr}'. 



Week-end, Aug-ust 2nd to 4th — Sedbergh for Baugh Fell. 



Wednesday, September 24th — Brimham Rocks. 



September 27th to 2nd October — Fungus Fora^' at Egton P5ridge. 



The Annual Meeting- of 1901 was held at Wakefield, on 

 October 17th, and, thanks to the assistance of the Wakefield 

 Naturalists' Society, and the Mayor and Corporation of the 

 city, was very successful. Before the meeting' a party of 

 members visited Walton Hall, and sections in the coal 

 measures near the city, were examiiied by the gfeolog^ists. 



The opening' meeting' of 1902 was held on Whit-Monday. 

 Ma)' 19th, at Coxwold, for the study of the Hambleton escarp- 

 ment near Roulston Scar. A nuniber of members spent the 

 week-end in the district, thus being' able to accoiiiplish a great 

 deal of useful work. 



The second meeting' was held at North (irimston, on Satur- 

 day, June 14th, for the investig^ation of the Wolds adjacent, the 

 g'eolog'ists devoting' their attention to the physical features oi' 

 the district. There was a fairly g'ood attendance. 



The third meeting' was held at Doncaster, on Thursday, July 

 loth, for the examination of the c>ountr}' around Bawtry, 

 I'^inningfle}', Rossing-ton, and Haxey. Oiie main object of the 

 meetings was to search for Lycfcnn trcis, which had not been 

 recorded for the district \'ov m;in\' N'ears. .As regards outdoor 

 W(jrk the meeting' was a failure, owing' to heav}- and continuous 

 rain, but the evening' meeting- is worthy of note, as it afforded an 

 opportunity ol welcoming" a mwuber of the leading' members of 

 ihe Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union, which was having a rneet- 

 ing'' al P'rofling-liam on ihi- following' day. 



