Xl8 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION — ANNUAL REPORT. 



to whom the Executive are under great obligation for the use of the 

 Board-room for their meetings. 



The Librarian will be pleased at any time to receive from 

 members copies of suitable books, particularly of works written or 

 published by themselves or dealing with Yorkshire natural history 

 or geology. 



The Sections of the Union have carried on their work during 

 the year with the energy and success of former years, and their 

 operations have tended much to the success of the various meetings. 



Committees of Research. ^ — During the year the two Com- 

 mittees which were appointed at the last annual meeting for specific 

 research have carried on their operations with success. 



The Yorkshire Boulder Committee has already scheduled a large 

 number of erratics, and have duly published the results. The value 

 of their work has been borne witness to by the Boulder Committee 

 of the British Association, who state that were similar committees 

 formed in other counties and their operations carried on with the 

 same vigour and success as in Yorkshire, the work of the British 

 Association Committee would soon be brought to a satisfactory 

 conclusion. 



The other Committee, that for investigating the Marine Zoology 

 of the Yorkshire Coast, although they have not as yet published 

 their results, have been working quietly at their subject. A goodly 

 number of specimens have been sent in and recorded for the future 

 use of the Committee. 



British Association. — The Union has again been selected as 

 one of the associated societies of the British Association, and at the 

 Manchester meeting (which was largely attended by members of this 

 Union) Mr. C. P. Hobkirk, chairman of the Executive, was the 

 official representative at the Conferences of Delegates of Scientific 

 Societies. 



Proposed Alteration of the Constitution. — Your Executive 

 have given very careful consideration to the question which a 

 resolution of the last Annual Meeting placed in their hands, and 

 are unanimously of opinion that the present regulations for the 

 election of the General Committee of the Union are calculated to 

 meet all the requirements that can legitimately arise, and that the 

 rules being sufficiently comprehensive and practicable in their 

 present form, do not need amendment. 



The Secretariate. — Your Executive have to express their 

 satisfaction that the heavy labour Avhich the work of the Union 

 entails upon its honorary secretaries has been substantially reheved 

 by the appointment at the last annual meeting of Messrs. P. H. 



Naturalist, 



