222 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION—-ANNUAL REPORT. 
on the Carboniferous Flora of Yorkshire, being the first of the 
reports prepared for the Union’s Fossil Flora Committee. The 
second of these reports is in course of preparation by Mr. Wm. Cash, 
and will deal with the Flora of the Halifax Hard Bed. 
art 15, which is devoted to the continuation of Mr. J. Gilbert 
Baker's ‘North Yorkshire, is now ready for issue to the members, 
and will very shortly be sent out. 
All the sheets intended for inclusion in Part 16 are printed or in 
the printer’s hands, and it is proposed to issue it about the middle 
or end of January next. 
When this has been issued, the arrears in the publication of the 
Transactions, which have for some years been a source of anxious 
consideration to the Executive, will have been overcome, and it will 
afterwards be practicable to issue each part during the course of the 
year for which it is due 
e Library continues to increase by means of donations 
and exchanges, and is somwid accommodated in book-cases at the 
Leeds Mechanics’ Institut 
The Sections of ie: Union have carefully carried on their 
work during the year, and it is to their efficient management that 
much of the success which attends the excursions has been 
attributable. 
ommittees of Research.—Tiis important feature of the 
Union’s work has been further developed during the year by the 
appointment at the last annual meeting of three additional Com- 
mittees, all working in conjunction with similar ones of the British 
Association. 
Of these new Committees, the one for collecting and recording 
Geological Photographs has worked with remarkable success, as was 
evidenced by their having contributed the larger portion of the 
excellent show of geological photographs which was exhibited at 
this year’s meeting of the British Association. 
e Committee for collecting information as to the Disappearance 
of Plants from their old habitat, has also carried on its work with 
success, and contributed a larger number of facts to the report which 
Prof. Hillhouse gave to the British Association this year. The 
detailed Yorkshire report, compiled by Messrs. C. P. Hobkirk, F-L.S., 
and P. F. Lee, has been published in ‘ T — Naturalist.’ 
the 
Yorkshire has accumulated a number of leita facts, but has been 
unable to frame a report, from inability to obtain from the British 
Association Committee copies of the necessary schedules. 7 BIS This 
Nat Naturalist, 
