FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT, FOR I9O4. 7 



Redcar — T. H. Nelson, The ClifFe, Redcar. 

 Ripon — Wm. Gregson, Baldersby S.O., Yorks. 

 Scarborough — J. H. Rowntree, Folkton Manor, Ganton, 



York. 

 Sheffield — A. T. Watson, Southwold, Topton Crescent, 



Sheffield. 

 Skipton — J. J. Wilkinson, Burnside, Skipton. 

 Whitby — Thomas Newbitt, 17, Royal Crescent, Whitby. 



General Committee. — The following names have been 

 added to the list of Permanent Members of the General 

 Committee : — 



Cosmo Johns, F.G.S., Burngrove, Pitsmoor Road, Sheffield. 

 S. Margerison, Calverley, Leeds. 



Transactions. — The following report, prepared for the 

 Executive Committee by the Hon. Secretary, has been printed on 

 the instructions of the Executive, in order that the members 

 may see precisely how the transactions of the Union stand. 

 Orders have been given for the immediate completion of Baker's 

 "North Yorkshire," and also for the issue of "The Birds of 

 Yorkshire." 



" The question of the completion of the various monographs 

 that the Union has commenced publishing should now be 

 carefully considered. In going through a set of the Union's 

 transactions, it is painfully evident that a number of monographs 

 have been started, a few sheets have been printed off, and then 

 the matter appears to have been allowed to drop, and the 

 energies and funds of the society have gone towards commencing 

 still further monographs, which in a few rare cases have been 

 completed. These exceptions are " The Flora of West York- 

 shire," by Mr. F. Arnold Lees ; " The Alga Flora of Yorkshire," 

 by Messrs. W. & G. S. West; and the "List of Yorkshire 

 Lepidoptera," by Mr. G. T. Porritt. A miscellaneous volume 

 of botanical papers was issued in i8gi, and contained much 

 useful information, but certainly, as its title indicates, of a very 

 miscellaneous character. This was issued as volome I., but I 

 should certainly not recommend that an attempt be made to 

 continue this series, as papers of the character contained therein 

 now appear in the " Naturalist," or in our ordinary volumes of 

 transactions. 



" With regard to the completed volumes already referred to, 

 these are such as do credit to any society. " Lees' Flora" was 

 issued in 1888, contains 850 pages, and is still looked upon as 

 one of the leading Floras in the country. Though originally 

 issued at a guinea, owing to a large number being on hand, the 

 Executive Committee decided to reduce the price to 5/-, which 



