332 Y.N.U. IN EDLINGTON AND WADWORTH WOODS. 
Permission for the exploration of their properties had been kindly 
granted by Earl Fitzwilliam, Lady Copley, Mr. F. J. Savile Foljambe, 
and the Denaby Main Colliery Co. Limited. 
Three routes were arranged for the investigation of the district. 
The main body left Doncaster Station on the arrival of the 
10.40 a.m., train, and, under the guidance of the following local 
members, namely, Messrs. H. H. Corbett, A. E. Hall, F.E.S., 
W. Roberts, and G. Winter, proceeded to Edlington Wood, and 
then away into Wadworth Wood. 
The second route was organised for the benefit of members 
geologically inclined. They left Doncaster by the 11.33 train for 
Mexborough, and on arriving were met by the Resident Engineer 
(Mr. H. W. Chambers), who arranged for them to descend the deep 
pit at Denaby Main. On reaching the surface the party moved 
off to inspect a new shaft at Cadeby, and eventually returned to 
Doncaster. 
A third party, to which the botanists attached themselves, chiefly 
indulged in fungus collecting, as on the previous day, those specially 
interested in this subject visiting Sandal Beat Wood. 
All parties centred on the Glyn Hotel at five o’clock, where tea 
was served. An hour later the sectional meetings were held, and 
were succeeded by the general meeting, under the chairmanship of 
the Rev. Wm. Fowler, M.A., Vicar of Liversedge, an Ex-President. 
After the reading and confirmation of the minutes of the 
Sledmere meeting, the following persons were unanimously elected 
members of the Union, viz.: Mrs. Vaughan, Doncaster ; and Messrs. 
T. C. Heslington, Ripon, and Joseph Harrison, Staveley (Derbyshire). 
Representatives from the following eighteen affiliated Societies 
responded to the roll-call, viz. : Heckmondwike, Barnsley, Wakefield, 
Ovenden, Liversedge, Bradford, Leeds, York, Sheffield, Dewsbury, 
Hull, and Harrogate Naturalists’ Societies; Goole and Halifax 
Scientific Societies; Doncaster Microscopical Society; The Con- 
chological Society ; and Leeds and Hull Geological Societies. 
n the motion of Mr. E. Howarth, F.R.AS., of Sheffield, 
seconded by Mr. J. M. Kirk, of Doncaster, a vote of thanks was 
passed to the landowners who had granted permission for the Union 
to investigate their property; also to the various persons who had 
led parties or contributed to the excursion-programme. 
The reports of the various Sections were next presented. 
For the Vertebrate Zoology Section, Mr. Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S., 
presented the report, the following account being supplied by 
Mr. Riley Fortune, F.Z.S., one of the Hon. Secretaries of the 
Section, who attended the meeting, but had to leave early. He 
Naturalist. 
