2 25 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION — ANNUAL MEETING. 9 



■ on the motion of Mr. J. W. Davis, F.G.S., F.L.S., seconded by 

 Mr. J. H. Howarth. The amended programme was then adopted, 

 on the motion of the Chairman, seconded by Mr. G. T. Porritt, 

 F.L.S., F.E.S. 



The annual meeting for 1891 was the next subject for 

 consideration, and a letter was read from the Scarborough 

 Field Naturalists' Society cordially inviting the Union to hold 

 the Meeting at Scarborough. The invitation was unanimously 

 accepted, on the motion of the Chairman, seconded by Mr. J, J. 

 Stead. 



Proceeding to the election of officers, the Chairman announced, 

 as stated in the concluding paragraph of the Annual Report, that 

 the Presidency for the ensuing year had been offered to and 

 accepted by one who had formerly been a famihar figure on the 

 Union's excursions — Professor A. H. Green, M.A., F.R.S , holding 

 the Geological Chair at the University of Oxford, and Jnte of the 

 Yorkshire College, Leeds. 



On the motion of the Chairman, Mr. Wm. Denison Roebuck, 

 F.L.S., and the Rev. E. P. Knubley, M.A., were re-elected Honorary 

 Secretaries of the Union. It was stated that a letter had been 

 received from Mr. Percy H. Grimshaw, in which he mentioned that 

 owing to increased pressure of private work, he was compelled to 

 retire from the office of Hon. Assistant Secretary, whereupon the 

 Chairman announced that the Executive recommended that a third 

 General Secretary of the Union should be appointed in the person 

 of Mr. Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S. ; this was unanimously carried on the 

 motion of Messrs. J. W. Davis, F.G.S., F.L.S., and G. T. Porritt, 

 F.L.S., F.E.S. A letter was read from Mr. Charles Brownridge, 

 stating that his health compelled him to ask to be allowed to retire 

 from the post of Hon. Librarian. The matter was referred to the 

 Executive for consideration. 



On the motion of Mr. Washington Teasdale, seconded by 

 Mr. J. A. E. Stuart, the following nine retiring members of the 

 Executive were re-elected: — Rev. W. Fowler, M.A., Liversedge; 

 Messrs. J. W. Davis, F.G.S., F.L.S., Halifax; William Cash, F.L.S., 

 Halifax; C. P. Hobkirk, F.L.S., Dewsbury; John Emmet, F.L.S., 

 Boston Spa ; Benj. Holgate, F.G.S., Leeds ; H. T. Soppitt, Bradford ; 

 J. J. Stead, Heckmondwike ; and M. B. Slater, F.L.S., Malton. 

 Mr Charles Brownridge, F.G.S., was elected in place of the late 

 Saml. A. Adamson. 



Mr. C. D. Hardcastle was re-elected one of the Auditors, and the 

 election of a second Auditor was left to the Executive, Mr. J. 

 E. Bedford, F.G.S., having resigned. 



August 1891. 



