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The unpaid subscriptions amount to £41, and the outstanding accounts to 

 £^g 14s. 8d. There is further a sum to be received from the publishers and from 

 the Secretary for publications sold during the year. 



REPORT OF THE LEEDS BRANCH. 

 Annual Report for the Year ending December 3rd, 1904. 



Mr. W. Cash, F.G.S., held the position of President, with Mr. J. W. Taylor, 

 F.L.S., and Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S., as Joint Hon. Secretaries, who, 

 however, resigned in May. Mr. Taylor through ill-health and over-pressure of 

 other duties, and Mr. Roebuck as he was leaving England for a lengthened tour 

 abroad. Messrs. F. Booth and J. E. Crowther were elected to fill the vacancies. 



Four new members were elected, and eleven meetings were held during the 

 year, with an average attendance of six members with a roll of eleven members on 

 the books. Five of the meetings were held indoors, four in the rooms of the 

 Y. VI.C.A. at Leeds, and the fifth in the Church Institute, Bradford. Of the six 

 meetings held in the field, one took the form of an excursion to Cleethorpes, 

 Lines. , for the observation of Amphipeplea glutinosa, in one of its few northern 

 habitats. The second meeting was held at Cawthorne, to investigate the occurrence 

 of Unio pidorum in the lakes at Cannon Hall Park. The third meeting took place 

 at Saltaire for a visit to Shipley Glen. The fourth meeting was held in connection 

 with the gathering of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, at Lawns House, Farnley, 

 Leeds, whereby the kindness of Mr. A. H. Pawson, J. P., F. L.S., P\G.S. , the 

 President of the Union, the members were entertained at a garden party. A ramble 

 took place in the morning to Bramley Fall Wood, to visit a local habitat for 

 Zonitoides excavatus. Another meeting was held at Colton, near Leeds, for a 

 visit to the ponds on Colton Moor, to search for Lijjtncea glabra. The sixth meet- 

 ing was held at Grassington, in Upper Wharfedale, in the hope of recording a 

 Yorkshire locality for the recently re-established British slug, Limax tenelhis, a 

 gratification which, however, was not realized ; there was too short a period of 

 time to allow of a thorough search being made. The President entertained the 

 members to tea in Grassington, after which Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, F. L.S., 

 read a paper on the " Recent Re-establishment of Limax temlliis as a British 

 Slug." This being the last meeting that Mr. Roebuck would attend for a long 

 period, advantage was taken of the occasion to wish him and Miss Roebuck a 

 pleasant and interesting time abroad and a safe return. 



During the winter months two papers were given, and a number of varied and 

 instructive exhibits formed a most interesting feature of the meetings. 



No addition was made to the Yorkshire list of species during the year, though 

 additions were made in two separate drainage areas, by the recording of Planorbis 

 iimbilicatus from the old river bed at Keighley, Upper Airedale, by Messrs. F. 

 Booth and F. Rhodes, and the recording of Zonitoides excavatus for Upper 

 Wharfedale, during a visit paid to Barden Bridge by Messrs. J. W. Taylor, W. Cash 

 and W. Denison Roebuck. 



The club has been officially represented at the meetings of the Yorkshire Natura- 

 lists' Union, and reports on investigations made on these excursions have appeared 

 in The Nattiralist, the organ of the Union. The year passed is considered by the 

 members to have been a very satisfactory one. 



F. Booth, \ Hon. Sees. 



J. E. Crowther, J 



