YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION. 
ANNUAL MEETING AT HALIFAX. 
THE 29th Annual Meeting of the Union was held at Halifax on the 
18th 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 
Museum 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 adopte 
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 me Sledmere 
N -East ae Hayburn Wyke 
North-West —_,, Leckby Carr 
Mid-West 2 Gist 
th-West _,, Conisborough and Edlington Wood. 
Some discussion took place _ regard to the Mid-West Yorkshire 
excursion, and ultimately Grassington was substituted for Gisburn, 
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