YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION. 



FORTIETH ANNUAL REPORT, FOR 1901. 



Your Executive has pleasure in submitting the following- 

 report of the operations of the Union and its Sections and 

 Committees for the past year. 



The last Annual Meeting- held at Middlesbrough, on October 

 26, 1900, was very successful, thanks to the arrangements and 

 hospitality of the Cleveland Field Naturalists' Club. Excursions 

 were arranged for the following day, but the great storm which 

 raged in the district made it impossible to carry these out, with 

 the exception of one to the Spa Wood Ironstone Mines. 



The Meetings held during the 3-ear have been seven in 

 number ; the usual one for each division of the count}-, the 

 last annual one, and a Fungus Foray. 



The districts chosen for investigation in looi, ar.d the dates 

 of the meetings were as follows : — 



Whit-Monday, May 27th — Broug-h. 



Saturday, June 22nd — Wykeham. 



Saturday, July 20th — Wetherby. 



Week-end, Aug-ust 3rd to 5th — Masliam. 



September 21st to 26th — Fung-us Fora}', with headquarters at Cadebv. 



Thursday, September 26th — Doncaster. 



The opening meeting was held on May 27th, at Brough. 

 There was a verj' large attendance, a good number of members 

 staying over the week-end. The naturalists mainly devoted 

 their attention to the investigation of Welton Dale, Elloughton 

 Dale, and Brantingham Dale, whilst the geologists examined 

 the sections of boulder clay exposed in Red Cliff, near North 

 Ferriby, sections in the Cretaceous and Jurassic rocks at 

 Melton and Elloughton, and g-ravels at Mill Hill. 



The second meeting was held at Wykeham on June 22nd, 

 a very large nu'viber of members and associates being present. 

 The day was devoted to the investigation of the natural history 

 of Beedale, Yedmandale, and Sawdondale, with many interesting 

 results. The geologists examiiied sections in the Middle 

 Oolites at Seamer and Ayton, where many good fossils were 

 found, and gravel pits at Button Bushel and Wykeham. 



The third meeting was held at Wetherb}-, on July 29th, and 

 the attendance was disappointing, particularly so considering 

 the proximity of the district to the VVest Riding towns, and the 

 fact that the dale had been altered owing to representations 



