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by collecting' beetles at meetings, and kindl}- handing them to 

 any coleopterist who happens to be present. 



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; J. W. Carter, F.E.S., Bradford; W. Foggitt, 

 J. P., Thirsk ; John Gardner, F.E.S., Hartlepool ; W. Hewett, 

 York; Joseph Neale, B.A., Ackworth ; H. Ostheide, Leeds; 

 and W. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S., Leeds ; and that Mr. 

 Ostheide be the representative on the Executive. 



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

 E.G. S., the secretary, reports that this Committee have con- 

 tinued their labours during the year, and observations have been 

 recorded, which will shortly be published in the usual report. 

 Active interest in the subject is undiminished after fifteen years 

 of steady work. Much has been done to throw light upon 

 the glacial geology of the county, and facts are being gradually 

 collected which it is hoped will tend to solve certain problems 

 which are still unsettled. 



The Committee ask for re-appointment as follows : — Percy 

 F. Kendall, F.G.S., Leeds, chairman ; J. H. Howarth, F.G.S., 

 Halifax, convener; J. E. Bedford, F.G.S., Leeds; Rev. W. 

 Lower Carter, M. A., F.G. S., Hopton ; Rev. E. Maule Cole, 

 M.A., Wetwang ; H. H. Corbett, M.R.C.S., Doncaster ; Wm. 

 Gregson, F.G. S., Baldersby ; Rev. John Hawell, M.A., F.G. S., 

 Ingleby Greenhow ; Edwin Hawkesworth, Leeds ; Wm. Home, 

 F.G.S., Leyburn ; Robert Law, F.G.S., Hipperholme ; J. H. 

 Lofthouse, Harrogate ; Thomas Sheppard, F.G. S., Hull ; 

 William Simpson, F.G.S., Halifax ; J. VV. Stather, F.G.S., 

 Hull; F. Fielder Walton, F.G.S., Hull; Herbert B. Muff, 

 B.A., F.G.S., Bradford; and J. E. Wilson, F.G.S., of 

 Ilkley ; Mr. Stather to be representati\e on the Executive. 



Yorkshire Bryological Committee. — Mr. J. J. Marshall, 

 the convener, writes that in spite of the unusuall}' dry season 

 much good work has been done, partly because very wet places 

 and deep bogs practically unapproachable have been examined 

 under more favourable conditions than during a wet season. 

 Tortilla certiua, a moss which Mr. Georg^e Webster, of York, 

 met with last September, in West Riding of Yorkshire, in small 

 quantity only, on the Magnesian limestone, near Aberford, is, so 

 far as we are aware, new to the British Isles. Mr. G. B. 

 Savery, of Pool, records the discovery of Bryum Duvalii Voit at 

 Adel Dog, which Dr. Braithwaite considers an unusually lowland 

 station for this usually Alpine species. The only previous 

 Yorkshire record was one by Mr. Binstead for Howgill Fells. 

 Mr. W. Ingham, of York, a most indefatigable worker, has dis- 



