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being mentioned at the British Association Meeting, the Yorkshire 

 Committee was encouraged to frame a schedule of its own, and 

 it is therefore to be hoped that in another year it will be in a 

 favourable position for reporting good work in a most fascinating 

 field of study. 



Of the Committees of older standing, the Yorkshire Boulder 

 Committee, which has during the past three years worked so 

 energetically and successfully, has suffered most seriously by the 

 decease of its secretary, Mr, S. A. Adamson, but has nevertheless 

 been able to report a considerable number of erratics, and to again 

 occupy a prominent part of the report on Erratics given to the British 

 Association. 



The Yorkshire Fossil Flora Committee has also continued its 

 investigations, the first portion of which is already in print, and the 

 second instalment, which Mr. W. Cash, F.L.S., has in preparation, 

 will include some observations of considerable interest bearing upon 

 the flora of the Halifax Hard Bed. 



The Yorkshire Marine Zoology Committee has no report to make, 

 not having been able to prosecute active operations, probably owing 

 in part to the Union not having had a coast excursion. 



The Yorkshire Coast Erosion Committee has done something in 

 the direction of recording facts bearing upon its subject, but is not 

 prepared as yet to make any detailed report. 



British Association. — The Union has again been appointed 

 one of the Corresponding Societies of the Association, and was 

 represented at the meeting held in Leeds this year by the 

 Rev. E. P. Knubley, M.A., and Messrs. C P. Hobkirk, F.L.S., and 

 Wm. Cash, F.L.S. 



Life Membership. — Your Executive having considered that 

 It would materially benefit the Union to enrol a number of Life 

 Members, the qualification being a donation not less in amount than 

 Five Guineas, ventured to address themselves to a number of noble- 

 men and gentlemen of the county or connected with it, and are 

 pleased that the response has been gratifying. Several Life Members 

 have now been enrolled, and the Executive hope still further to 

 increase the number. 



The Presidency for next year (1891) has been offered to and 

 accepted by an old and distinguished member of the Union — 

 Prof. A. H. Green, M.A., F.R.S., of the University of Oxford. 



In conclusion, your Executive have to place on record their 

 sense pf gratitude to the Lord Bishop of Wakefield for the honour 

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

 presidency for the year which has now come to a close. 



July 1891. 



