14 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS UNION. 



COMMITTEES. 



The President and Secretary of the Union are ex-oiBcio Members of all 



Committees. 



The Yorkshire Micro-Zoolog-y and Micro-Botany 

 Committee. — Mr. R. H. Philip reports. — During this year 

 three of the Excursions have been attended, Filey, BoAves, 

 and Wharncliffe Crags, full reports of which have appeared in 

 the " Naturalist." The " Transactions of the Hull Scientific 

 Club" for this year contain further additions to the "List of 

 Diatoms of the Hull District," and the "Naturalist" for July 

 contains figures and description of a rare diatom found at 

 Hotham Carrs, near North Cave. 



It is recommended that the following be elected during 

 J904:— 



Chairman— M. H.. Stiles, F.R.M.S. 



Convener — R. H. Philip. 



Representative on Executive — H, Moore, F.R.M.S. 



Representative on Committee of Suggestions — W. West, 



F.L.S. 

 Other Members — J. N. Coombe, Prof. A. Denny, F.L.S., 



F. W. Mills, F.R.M.S., H. Moore, F.R.M.S., H. C. 



Sorby, LL.D., F.R.S. 



Yorkshire Coleoptera Committee.— Mr. M. L. 



Thompson, F.E.S., the Secretary, reports that the attendance 

 of members of the Committee at the meetings of the Union 

 was a record one, especially at Filey, where the workers in this 

 branch of entomology were never before so well represented. 

 Sixty-five species of Coleoptera were met with on this occasion. 

 At the Goathland meeting sixty-six beetles were recorded, one 

 of them, Donacia discolor, being new to the county. The Cow- 

 thorpe, Bowes, and Wharncliffe meetings were also attended 

 by members, Crypiophagns lycoperdi being taken in the last-named 

 locality. The continuance throughout the past season of 

 weather most unfavourable for collecting, has left coleopterists 

 with but little to report. Here .and there, however, a few really 

 interesting insects have been met with, among which, mention 

 may be made of Anchomenus ericeti and Acilius fasciatiis, at 

 Hatfield ; Megacronus inclinans, at Saltburn ; Quedius lateralis, 

 near Doncaster and at Saltburn ; Pyvoptevus affiuis and Tetrops 

 pransta, in Wheatley Wood. A detailed account of these 

 ■observations will be published in the " Naturalist," and it is 

 hoped that Yorkshire coleopterists will contribute their notes at 

 .an early date. 



