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. 
e 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 oo Tuesday, Kildale-in-Cleveland. 
Aug. 2nd to 4th, Saturday to Bank Holiday Monday, Upper Swaledale 
Sulewane Kisdon, and Keld 
Sept. 11th, 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 achieve 
The opening meeting, ee 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. Dobrée, 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 
Ww € arrangements were admirably made by Messrs. P. F. Lee 
and Chae: 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 18qr. 
