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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION. 



29th ANNUAL REPORT, for 1890. 



The Executive, in presenting the 29th Annual Report and Statement 

 of Accounts, have to congratulate the members upon a year of 

 steady and continued progress and of satisfactory work, whether as 

 regards the value of the Union's publications, the interest maintained 

 in its excursions, or the amount of work done by the various 

 Committees appointed for special research. 



The Meetings which have been held during the year have 

 been five in number, one for each division of the county, the places 

 and dates having been as follows : — 



May 26th, Whit- Monday, Driffield for Lowthorpe. 



June 14th, Saturday, Dewsbury for Bretton Park. 



July 8th, Tuesday, Kildale-in-Cleveland. 



Aug. 2nd to 4th, Saturday to Bank Holiday Monday, Upper Swaledale 

 (Gunnerside, Kisdon, and Keld). 



Sept. nth, Thursday, Malham and Gordale (in connection with the 

 meeting of the British Association in Leeds). 



For each of these meetings the usual descriptive circular, which 

 is so conducive to the convenience of members and associates under- 

 taking the day's explorations, was issued, and at all the meetings 

 good results were achieved. 



The opening meeting, fixed for the investigation of the picturesque 

 little valley down which flows the famous trout stream, with Driffield 

 as the actual place of meeting, was the means of introducing members 

 to. a district of the East Riding which the Union has never before 

 visited. On this occasion the Union met with the utmost kindness 

 on the part of one of its members, Mr. W. H. St. Quintin, over whose 

 property the route lay. At the meeting the chair was occupied by 

 Mr. N, F. Dobree, F.E.S., President of the Entomological Section, 

 and before leaving Driffield a visit was paid to Mr. Mortimer's well- 

 arranged and most interesting museum. 



The second excursion was held in June, at Dewsbury, and the 

 districts visited were Bretton Park, Coxley Valley, and Bullcliffe 

 \Vooil. The arrangements were admirably made by Messrs. P. F. Lee 

 and Chas. P. Hobkirk, F.L.S., the latter of whom, in his capacity of 

 President of the Botanical Section, presided at the meeting. Some 

 interesting observations were made during the day, and the only 

 regret is that, in a place so conveniently accessible to the great body 

 of members and associates, the attendance was not more than an 

 average one. 



July i8qi. 



