YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION. 



FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT, FOR 1903. 



Presented at Sheffield, January 29th, 1904. 



Your Executive has pleasure in submitting the following 

 record of the year's work of the Union and its Sections and 

 Committees. 



The Annual Meeting for 1902 was held at Hull, on 

 December loth, a full report of the proceedings of which 

 appeared in the " Naturalist " for January, 1903. With the 

 co-operation of the Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' 

 Club, and the Hull Geological Society, this proved in every 

 way successful. By the permission of the Hull Corporation, 

 a Conversazione was held in the Municipal Museum, which 

 proved a very convenient place, owing to the Lecture Theatre 

 of the Literary and Philosophical Society, which was kindly 

 placed at the disposal of the Union by the Society, being in 

 communication. Mr. P. F. Kendall, F.G.S., delivered his 

 Presidential Address, entitled " Problems in the Distribution 

 of Animals and Plants," during which the Sheriff of Hull 

 (Mr. Victor Dumoulin), occupied the Chair. 



A pleasing feature at this meeting was the presentation of 

 an Illuminated Address and a magnificent clock and bronzes'-' by 

 the members to Mr. W . Denison Roebuck, as a mark of esteem 

 for his services as Secretary. The presentation was made by 

 Mr. G. T. Porritt. Mr. E. Hawkesworth, who had been assist- 

 ing Mr. Roebuck in recent years, was the recipient of a silver 

 cigar case. 



Before the meeting, the v/aste ground between Hessle and 

 Hull was examined by some of the members of the Union, 

 under the guidance of local naturalists, and, on the day 

 following, a good number visited the new sections in the 

 glacial gravels at Kelsey Hill, in Holderness. 



The Field Meetings for the year have been six in 

 number, as under : — ■ 



Saturday, May gth — Cowthorpe. 



Whit-Monday, June ist — Filey. 



Saturday, June 27th — Goathland. 



Week-end to August 3rd, Bank Holiday Monday — Bowes. 



Thursday, September 3rd — Wharncliffe Crags. 



September 26th to October ist — Fungus Foray at Helmsley and Rievaulx 



A silver tea service was also presented later in the year. 



