6 VORKSHIRE NATURALISTS UNION — ANNUAL REPORT. TI 



committees of this Union, whenever members are to be found able 

 and wiUing to act thereupon. 



Proposals will be brought forward at this present meeting for the 

 appointment of a committee to deal with the erosion of sea-coasts, 

 this county being particularly suited for research in this direction. 



British Association. — The Union has again been selected as 

 one of the Corresponding Societies of the Association, and was 

 represented this year at the Bath meeting by the Rev. E. P. 

 Knubley, M.A., whose report has been published in The Naturalist. 



Your Executive is pleased to know that the Association has 

 accepted an invitation to meet in Yorkshire two years hence, at 

 Leeds, and it is to be hoped that members will do what lies in 

 their power to render that meeting a successful one. 



The International Geological Congress, which has held 

 its meetings this year in England, selected Yorkshire as the scene of 

 two of the excursions, one being in the Craven district and the 

 other on the Coast. These were attended by some of the foreign 

 geologists then in England, and at both excursions this Union 

 was represented by several of its members. 



The Secretariate. — Your Executive cannot let this report 

 pass without referring to the very serious loss the Union sustains 

 this day by the retirement of Mr. W. Eagle Clarke from the position 

 as honorary secretary which he has occupied with so much advantage 

 to the Union during the past eight years, nor without an expression 

 of the very sincere and deep regret which all the members and 

 associates must feel at the severance of a connection so long and so 

 intimate as that which has existed between Mr. Clarke and his 

 Yorkshire colleagues. 



The Presidency. — In conclusion, your Executive have to 

 announce that the office of President has been accepted by an 

 Ornithologist of the first rank, Mr. Henry Eeles Dresser, who is a 

 Yorkshireman by birth, and the author of what is the standard work 

 on European birds, and of numerous papers on the subject of which 

 he is an acknowledged master. 



The Executive have further to express their deep sense of the 

 honour which our retiring President, Mr. Hudleston, has conferred 

 upon the Union by his brief tenure of an office, the high character 

 of which has been amply maintained in his keeping. 



Naturalist, 



