THE YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION: 



ANNUAL MEETING AT MALTON. 



The Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting, held this year at Malton, on 

 Wednesday, the 7th of March, was an extremely successful and 

 pleasant one — a result for which the exertions of the members of the 

 Malton Society (which enjoys a high place among our local societies) 

 are in the main responsible. By the courtesy of the Committee of 

 the Malton Institute, various rooms in that building were placed at 

 the Union's service. The proceedings commenced at 3.15 p.m., 

 when the General Committee met in the Museum for the transaction 

 of the Union's business. The attendance included the official 

 delegates of seven societies (eleven others being unofficially repre- 

 sented by Permanent Members of the Committee), the two honorary 

 secretaries and one honorary assistant-secretary, the honorary 

 librarian, four presidents and seven secretaries of sections, two other 

 members of the Executive, and twelve other Permanent Members of 

 the General Committee — making a total of forty. The Rev. E. Maule 

 Cole, M.A., a vice-president, occupied the chair. The minutes of 

 the preceding annual meeting were read, discussed, and then unani- 

 mously adopted, on the motion of Mr. Erskine Stuart, seconded by 

 Mr. S. A. Adamson. 



The Twenty-sixth Annual Report was then read by the secretaries, 

 together with the certificate of the auditors to the effect that the 

 accounts had been duly examined and found to be correct, after 

 which the Reports were adopted, on the motion of Mr. John Stears 

 (Hull), seconded by Mr. Washington Teasdale, F.R.A.S. (Leeds). 



The excursion -programme for 1888 was then fixed as follows, 

 on the recommendation of the Executive, unanimously confirmed on 

 the motion of Mr. J. J. Stead (Heckmondwike), seconded by Mr. 

 P. F. Lee (Dewsbury) : — 



Leyburn ; Whit- Monday, 21st May. 



Saddleworth ; Saturday, i6th June. 



Robin Hood's Bay ; Monday, i6th July. 



Market Weighton, for the Wolds ; Bank Holiday Monday, 6th August. 



Fungus Foray, with Meetings at Leeds, about the end of September. 



It was then decided, on the motion of Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, 

 F.L.S., seconded by Mr. J. W. Addyman, B.A., that for the purpose 

 of arranging excursions in future years, the five districts of the 

 county be Mr. Cottrell Watson's well-known botanical divisions, viz.: 

 South-East York, North-East York, North-West York, Mid-West 

 York, and South-West York. The principal changes involved are the 



Naturalist, 



