YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION. 



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FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT, FOR 1904. 



Presented at Leeds, December 17th, 7904. 



The following report on the year's work of the Union, with 

 its Committees and Sections, is submitted by your Executive. 



The 42nd Annual Meeting was held at Sheffield on 

 January 29th, a report of which appeared in the " Naturalist " 

 for March last. A preliminary excursion was held in the 

 morning to examine the fossil trees exposed in the grounds 

 of the asylum at Wadsley, which were originally described 

 by Dr. H. C. Sorby, in 1873. 



The meetings of sections and the general meeting were held 

 in the Public Museum and Mappin Art Gallery by the kind 

 permission of the Sheffield Corporation. At a meeting of the 

 general committee, over which Mr. P. F. Kendall presided, a new 

 committee was formed, viz., a Committee of Suggestions for 

 Research. Mr. Kendall was the first president of this com- 

 mittee, and Dr. W. G. Smith the convener. Excursions for 

 1904 were arranged, but some of these were subsequently 

 altered in order to meet the wishes of the local societies. 



At the Annual General Meeting, which was presided over 

 by Alderman W. H. Brittain, a Presidential Address by Mr. W. 

 Denison Roebuck, entitled, "Salient Features in the History of 

 the Union," was read by Mr. E. Howarth. 



By the invitation of the Sheffield Naturalists' Club, the 

 members of the Union afterwards attended a Conversazione, 

 which was held at the Art Gallery and Museum. 



The Field Meetings for the year have been seven in 

 number — six of which, as usual, were arranged by the Executive, 

 the extra excursion and meeting being held at Farnley, on the 

 invitation of our President, Mr. A. H. Pawson. The dates of 

 the excursions were as follows, and full reports of each appeared 

 in the " Naturalist " for the month immediately following the 

 excursion : — 



May 2ist to 23rd (Whit Week-end) — Harwood Dale. 



June nth — Hebden Bridge. 



July 2nd to 4th — Spurn. 



July i6th — Farnley. 



July 28th to August ist (Bank Holiday Week-end) — Buckden. 



September 3rd to 5th — Dent. 



September 24th to 29th — Rokeby (Fungus Foray). 



