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New Members of General Committee.— Your Executive 

 recommend that Mr. R. Barnes of Saltburn, Mr. Godfrey Bingley 

 of Leeds, Mr. James Booth, Mayor of Hahfax, Mr. Frederick 

 Brittain of Sheffield, Mr. Riley Fortune of Harrogate, Mr. John 

 Gerrard of Wakefield, Mr. Hugh Richardson of Sedbergh, Mr. Henry 

 Speight of Bradford, Dr. F. J. Sawdon of Hull, and Mr. Thos, F. 

 Ward of Middlesbrough, be the ten additional permanent members 

 of the General Committee for this year. 



Your Executive have again considered the desirability of the 

 members having a direct voice in the choice of representatives on 

 the General Committee, and they hereby recommend that in future 

 the ten additions made annually to the list of permanent members 

 be made by vote of the members, the voting to be by written com- 

 munications forwarded to the Hon. Secretaries, and afterwards 

 examined and reported upon by scrutineers to be appointed by the 

 General Committee at the Annual Meeting. 



The Presidency. — In conclusion, your Executive have to 

 announce that the office of President has been accepted by the 

 Right Rev. Wm. Walsham-How, Lord Bishop of Wakefield — 

 a naturalist of old standing, who in years gone by was successively 

 the founder, hon. secretary, and president of the Oswestry Field 

 Club, one of the most successful of the Field Clubs of the West of 

 England. 



Your Executive have further to express their warm sense of grati- 

 tude to the retiring President, Mr. H. Eeles Dresser, for the honour 

 which he has conferred upon the Union by his tenure of the office. 



Naturalist, 



