FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT, FOR I903. 1 7 



awaiting further investigation. Drawings, and detailed verbal 

 descriptions, as full as it was possible to take, were made at 

 the time of collecting. Recently, the President of our section 

 undertook their further examination, at the Royal Herbarium, 

 Kew, and prepared the results for publication in the "Naturalist," 

 Jan. 1904, along with the other new and critical species. 



Mr. G. Massee was recommended as President of the 

 Committee for 1904; Mr. C. Crossland, Secretary; and the 

 following gentlemen on the Committee : — Rev. W. Fowler, 

 Messrs. W. N. Cheesman, A. Clarke, A. D. Cotton, Thos. 

 Gibbs, J. W. Sutcliffe, and H. W. T. Wager. 



Representative on Executive and on Committee of Sugges- 

 tions — Mr. C. Crossland. 



Yorksliire Fossil Flora Committee.— Mr. W. M. 



Rankin writes : — During the past year, though much work 

 has been done individually amongst the Committee, there 

 is nothing to record of general research or action. The 

 study of the Fossil Flora of Yorkshire has difficulties little 

 known in the other branches of local scientific work. In 

 the first place the localities are restricted to certain areas, 

 and even in those it is the chance blow of the worker that 

 brings the fossil to light, only perhaps to be obscured or de- 

 stroyed. It is in such circumstances that the individual can 

 work best. Again, the interpretation of the confusion seen in 

 some sections extracted from a coal-ball can only be under- 

 taken after long experience, and with a clear knowledge of 

 modern histology. Of recent years vast strides have been taken 

 by the science of Fossil-Botany, owing to the researches of 

 Messrs. Scott and Seward ; and perhaps it would be well if 

 Yorkshire Botanists would follow the lines of that work by 

 studying minutely the many fossil-sections now hidden away in 

 cases. Professor Weiss, of Manchester, has found a review of 

 the sections at Owen's College, productive of new facts, that 

 cast new light on old doubts. 



It is recommended that the following be elected during 

 1904:— 



Chairman — R. Kidston, F.R.S.E., F.G.S. 

 Convener — W. Hemingway. 



Representative on Executive — J. E. Wilson, F.G.S. 

 Representative on Committee of Suggestions — W. Hemingway. 

 Other Members— J. W. Bond, Robert Law, F.G.S., W. 

 West, F.L.S. 



Geological Photographs Committee.— The Secre- 

 tary, Mr. J. E. Bedford, F.G.S., Leeds, reports that no photo- 

 graphs have been received by him during the past year. 



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