YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION AT GRASSINGTON. 263 
The members who confined their attention to the woods had 
certainly, so far as mere comfort goes, the most enjoyable time of it, 
for the excursion was conducted under continuous broiling sunshine ; 
and this, on the day preceding the longest day of the year, was 
about noon almost unbearable. About four o’clock the inhabitants 
of the quiet little village of Grassington began to flock to their 
windows and doors to see the visitors invade their domain. Bearing 
unmistakeable traces of the limestone nature of the district, they at 
length assembled in Grassington House to the number of between 
7° and 80, and after a most acceptable wash sat down in the 
spacious rooms to the good fare provided. After tea the party, 
influenced by the beautiful weather, moved into the gardens attached 
to Grassington House, and there conducted the business of the 
meetings under the shade of the trees, in true naturalists’ fashion. 
The Sectional Meetings were first held, at which notes were compared 
and the reports prepared for presentation to the General Meeting, which 
Opened at 5.30 under the chairmanship of Mr. G. T. Porritt, F.LS., 
President of the Entomological Section. Amid beautiful suxfeundings 
it is scarcely advisable to submit members to too much formality in 
the way of meetings, and the proposition that ‘the minutes of the 
Previous meeting be taken as read’ was unanimously acceded to. 
The following ladies and gentlemen whose names had been duly 
Proposed and seconded were elected, viz.: the Misses Rachel Ford 
Thompson and Frances Phillips Thompson, Settle; Mrs. A. H. 
Pawson, Farnley; and Messrs. J. J. Burton, Nunthorpe; E. D. 
Doncaster, Sheffield ; Wm. Mansbridge, Horsforth ; Adam Millward, 
Harrogate; and Rudolph Rosenstock, B.A., Huddersfield. It is 
usually and naturally expected that several new members, from the 
district in which an excursion is held, will be admitted into the 
Union, but it is to be regretted that such was not the case with 
regard to the Grassington excursion, not a single new member 
from the immediate district being proposed. 
The Societies represented on the excursion included Liversedge, 
Leeds (2), York, Dewsbury, Malton, Halifax, Harrogate, Thirsk, 
Craven, Leyburn, Scarborough, Huddersfield, Cleveland, and the 
Conchological Society. 
A vote of thanks was accorded to the Duke of cata 
Messrs. James Lambert, N. H. Kelsall, R. Procter, and V 
Procter for permission granted to visit their respective estates, oa a 
Messrs. R. H. Tiddeman, M.A., F.G.S, L. Rotheray, and H. T. 
Soppitt for leading parties, or contributing to the excursion- 
programme, on the proposition of the Mayor of Halifax, seconded 
ay Me = = Holgate, F.G.S. 
