220 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION—ANNUAL REPORT. 
The third meeting was arranged for July, for the investigation of 
Kildale, a picturesque and sequestered little valley in the Cleveland 
ills) 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 aesleclait) 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 
Rae ue 
e Societies which constitute the Union are now thirty-nine 
in ieee 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’ 
Dee: whilst another Society of thirty members, the Leeds 
.A. Naturalists’ Club, withdrew from the Union at the begin- 
ao of the year. On the other hand, two new Societies have been 
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