"4 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS UNION — ANNUAL REPORT. 220 



The third meeting was arranged for July, for the investigation of 

 Kildale, a picturesque and sequestered little valley in the Cleveland 

 Hills. Thanks to the local knowledge and excellent arrangements 

 made by the Middlesbrough members, the excursion was more than 

 usually productive of good results, especially to the conchologists, 

 entomologists, and botanists, the investigations of the two latter 

 sections being instrumental in discovering a lepidopterous insect new 

 to the county list and a plant additional to the North Riding flora. 

 The meeting was for convenience held at Middlesbrough, the chair 

 being occupied by Dr. W. Y. Veitch, the President of the Cleveland 

 Naturalists' Field Club. 



The August Bank Holiday excursion was devoted to Upper 

 Swaledale, and the district being much too inaccessible for a single 

 day's excursion, the observations were extended over three days, as 

 was done in Teesdale in the preceding year. There was a fair 

 attendance of members, and the Union was particularly fortunate in 

 having the presence of Mr. J. G. Goodchild, F.G.S., by whom the 

 whole of the district had been geologically surveyed. His able 

 guidance and genial company made the excursion one that will be 

 recalled with pleasure by all who joined in it. The chair of the 

 meeting, which was held at Muker, was occupied by the Rev. R. V. 

 Taylor, B.A., the Vicar of Melbecks. 



The closing meeting of the year was one arranged in connection 

 with the Leeds meeting of the British Association, and by the 

 kindness of an old member of the Union, Mr. Walter Morrison, M.P., 

 was held at Malham. The meeting was a successful one, and was 

 well attended, both by members of the British Association and of 

 the Union. Mr. C. P. Hobkirk presided at the meeting, which was 

 very short, the usual sectional reports being omitted. 



On all these occasions the Union has been indebted to the 

 unvarying kindness with which Yorkshire landowners facilitate 

 scientific research on their estates, and the opportunities granted by 

 the various railway companies whose lines run through Yorkshire 

 contribute their share to promoting the success of the Union's 

 investigations. 



The Societies which constitute the Union are now thirty-nine 

 in number, as against forty last year. Two small societies, numbering 

 eighteen members between them, have ceased to exist, viz., the 

 Middlesbrough Junior Naturalists' Club, whose members now join 

 in the work of the Cleveland Club, and the Practical Naturalists' 

 Society, whilst another Society of thirty members, the Leeds 

 Y.M.C.A. Naturalists' Club, withdrew from the Union at the begin- 

 ning of the year. On the other hand, two new Societies have been 



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