YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION— ANNUAL REPORT. II7 



The West Yorkshire Flora has now been issued to the 

 subscribers. It is in every respect a credit to its author and his 

 collaborators, from its remarkable completeness, accuracy and fulness 

 of detail, and handsome appearance. It forms a portly volume of 

 about 850 pages, and is — as Mr. Baker informs us — the most com- 

 plete work of its kind which has appeared for any district of 

 comparable extent in the world. It will always be to the credit of 

 the Union that it was the means of finally bringing about the 

 production of so useful a work. 



The Naturalist has been regularly and punctually published 

 month by month, and has formed a convenient and much-appreciated 

 vehicle for communications relating, not only to Yorkshire, but to 

 the whole of the North of England. All that it needs is such an 

 increase in the number of subscribers as will not only place the 

 balance on the right side of the account, but also provide funds for 

 improving the journal, by enabling its editors to give occasional 

 illustrations. 



The Library of the Union has been largely increased during 

 the year, partly by purchase, but mostly by donations from members 

 and friends, including Messrs. S. A. Adamson, W. Eagle Clarke, 

 Rev. Canon Fowler, J. 0. Goodchild, J. H. Gurney, jun., J. A. Harvie- 

 Brown, J. E. Harting, Alfred Marker, P. F. Lee, Prof G. A. Lebour, 

 J. C. Melvill, R. T. Manson, F. Nicholson, E. E. Prince, R. Ridgway, 

 T. Mellard Reade, W. I). Roebuck, R. S])ruce, Rev. W. Thompson, 

 etc. 



The Union being a subscriber to the Zoological Record — a most 

 important annual publication — availed itself during the year of 

 purchasing, on very advantageous terms, the complete set of back 

 volumes. A similar opportunity of filling up to a large extent the 

 gap which exists in the Union's set of the Zoologist was also made 

 use of Amongst the other books which have been added are Canon 

 Fowler's new work on British Coleoptera, Mr. Ridgway's on Colour 

 for Naturalists, Mr. 'I'hompson's Florula Sedbergensis, Mr. Mellard 

 Reade's Origin of Mountain Ranges, Prof Lebour's Geology of 

 Northumberland and Durham, and Harvie-Brown and Buckley's 

 \'ertebrate Fauna of Sutherland and Caithness. 



The Executive take this opportunity of acknowledging the 

 services of Mr. Chas. Brownridge as Honorary Librarian during the 

 year. Thanks to him, the Library has l)cen put in order, ready for 

 the preparation of the catalogue, a neces.sary preliminary to members 

 being able to make use of the I^ooks. 



The books and other property of the Union are stored at the 

 Leeds Mechanics' Institute, through the kindness of its Committee, 



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