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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION. 



ANNUAL MEETING AT HALIFAX. 



The 29th Annual Meeting of the Union was held at Halifax on the 

 1 8th November, 1890, Through the kindness of the Halifax 

 Literary and Philosophical Society, the Lecture Theatre at the 

 Museum, Harrison Road, was placed at the disposal of the Union 

 for the purpose of holding its various meetings. The Ackroyd 

 Museum and Art Gallery, the Public Library at Belle Vue, and the 

 Museiim of the Literary and Philosophical Society were very 

 generously thrown open throughout the day to members and associates 

 of the Union. It was chiefly to Mr, J. W. Davis, F.G.S., Mayor of 

 Halifax, and other local members of the Union, that the success of 

 the meeting was due. 



At three o'clock the various sections met in the rooms of the 

 Museum for the purpose of electing their officers for the ensuing 

 year, and for the consideration of their annual reports. 



An hour later the General Committee met in the Lecture Theatre 

 of the same institution. Fifteen societies were officially represented 

 by delegates, and other six were unofficially represented by permanent 

 members of the General Committee. The attendance also included 

 one ex-President (Rev. W. Fowler, M.A.), all the Honorary Secretaries 

 (Mr. Wm. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S., Rev. E. P. Knubley, M.A., and 

 Mr. Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S.), six members of the Executive, one 

 President and four Secretaries of Sections, three of the local 

 Treasurers, and nine other permanent members of the General 

 Committee, the total attendance being forty-seven. 



The chair was occupied by the Chairman of the Executive 

 (Mr. C. P. Hobkirk, F.L.S.). The minutes of the previous annual 

 meeting were taken as read. The 29th Annual Report (as printed 

 on p. 219) was read by the Rev. E. P. Knubley, M.A., one of the 

 Hon. Secretaries, and on the motion of the Chairman, seconded by 

 Mr. J. W. Davis, F.G.S., F.L.S., was unanimously adopted. 



The Secretary then read the recommendation of the Executive 

 that the excursions for 1891 be fixed for the following places, the 

 selection of dates to be left for decision by the new Executive : — 

 South-East Yorkshire ... Sledmere. 

 North-East ,, ... Hayburn Wyke. 



North- West ,, ... Leckby Carr. 



Mid-West . ,, ... Gisburn. 



South- West ,, ... Conisborough and Edlington Wood. 



Some discussion took place with regard to the Mid-West Yorkshire 

 excursion, and ultimately Grassington was substituted for Gisburn, 



Naturalist, 



