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5. The areas at present proclaimed, viz., Spurn Promontory 



and Hornsea Mere, to be further protected for a period 

 of five years from the dating of this order. 



6. That in the neighbourhood of Speeton, Buckton, Bempton, 



and Flamboro' Cliffs no Guillemots, Razorbills, or 

 Puffins shall be shot between the last day of February 

 and the first day of September. 



7. That the Union thank the secretary of the Scarboro' 



Harbour Commissioners for acceding to Mr. Nelson's 

 request to discontinue the practice of firing rockets at 

 Bempton Cliffs, and to request him to exercise his authority 

 in preventing such practice in the future. 



8. The secretary of the Union be asked also to write to the 



following : — (i) The Bridlington Harbour Commissioners 

 to request them to instruct the captains of the pleasure 

 steamers to refrain from disturbing the rock-breeding 

 fowl at Bempton and Speeton by the firing of guns or 

 rockets. (2) The Marquis of Normanby, to request him 

 to lend his assistance in protecting the eggs of the Herring 

 gull at Kettleness. 



It is recommended that the following be elected for 1905 : — 



Chairman — T. H. Nelson, Redcar. 



Convener — R. Fortune, Harrogate. 



Representative on Executive and on Committee of Suggestions 

 — K. McLean, Harrogate. 



Other Members — F. Boyes, Beverley ; T. Bunker, Goole ; 

 H. E. Dresser, London ; Jno. Gerrard, Manchester ; 

 Rev. E. Ponsonby Knubley, M.A., Steeple Ashton, 

 Wilts. ; Claude Leatham, Wakefield ; Geo. T. Porritt, 

 Huddersfield; W. H. St. Quintin, J.P. ; and Rev. W. T. 

 Travis, M.A., Ripley. 



Yorkshire Botanical Survey Committee:— Dr. 



W. G. Smith writes : — This Committee was founded to 

 stimulate observations on the distribution of plants in York- 

 shire. A plan of work suggested by one of the members was 

 widely circulated throngh the Societies of the Y.N.U. During 

 two years no adequate response to this has been made, nor has 

 any better plan of work been suggested. The members who 

 were engaged in Botanical Survey for the establishment of 

 the Committee still continue their work, and have almost 

 all issued important papers during this year. Mr. T. W. 

 Woodhead's ecological work, in which members of the Hudders- 



