20 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS UNION. 



Wild Birds and Eggs Protection Committee.— 



Mr. T. H. Nelson, M.B.O.U., writes : — I regret not being able to 

 supply a lengthy report, as all my spare time during the past 

 year has been devoted to the " Birds of Yorkshire," now nearing 

 completion. I may state, however, that the attention of 

 naturalists has been directed to the great slaughter of sea- 

 birds at Bridlington, which is commented on by the Rev. 

 J. J. Tuck, in the " Zoologist " ; and I would suggest the most 

 efficacious method of putting a stop to the practice would be 

 to induce ladies to discontinue the habit, or fashion, of wearing 

 caricatures of birds in their hats ; for if the demand for sea- 

 bird's plumes ceased there would be no inducement for gunners 

 to shoot terns and kittiwakes by the score, as has been done 

 at the place named for the past few years. 



It is recommended that the following be elected during 

 1904: — Thos. H. Nelson, M.B.O.U., Redcar, chairman and 

 convener; F. Boyes, Beverley; T. Bunker, Goole ; H. E. 

 Dresser, F.L.S., F.Z.S., London; R. Fortune, F.Z.S, Harrogate; 

 Jno. Gerrard, M.B.O.U., Manchester ; Rev. E. Ponsonby 

 Knubley, M.A., Steeple Ashton, Wilts. ; Claude Leatham, 

 Wakefield; Kenneth McLean, Harrogate; T. Fetch, B.A., B.Sc, 

 Hedon; Geo. T. Porritt, F.L.S., Huddersfield ; W^ H. St. 

 Quintin, J. P., D.L., M.B.O.U. ; and Rev. W. T. Travis, M.A., 

 Ripley ; Mr. McLean to represent it on the Executive. 



Yorkshire Botanical Survey Committee. — This 



Committee held its first meeting in Leeds, on January ist, 1903. 

 Mr. John Farrah was unanimously elected president. The 

 convener brought forward a paper on " Botanical Survey for 

 Local Naturalists' Societies," which had that day appeared in 

 the " Naturalist." The Committee decided that this paper, 

 along with a circular drawing attention to it, should be distributed 

 throughout the societies of the Union, and the president 

 generously relieved the Committee of all expense incurred in the 

 printing and posting of additional copies. The paper was 

 accordingly distributed, and as many requests for additional 

 copies were received, a large edition is now practically exhausted. 



During the year work on different aspects of local botanical 

 survey have been in progress in various parts of Yorkshire, and 

 some papers will probably appear in the " Naturalist," in 1904. 

 In most cases, however, a year or two must elapse before workers 

 are in a position to pubHsh results. 



The Committee has been represented at each of the Union 

 excursions of the past year. In connection with the Filey 

 excursion, "Notes on the Vegetation of Ponds," prepared by 

 members of the Committee, appeared in the October " Naturalist." 



