YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION—-ANNUAL REPORT. 93 
The Membership now stands at 462, being 23 Life Members, 
6 Honorary Life Members, and 433 Ordinary Members, a net increase 
of 22 upon the previous year. During the year 67 new members 
have been elected. In this connection, the Union’s last annual 
meeting, held at Halifax, was very largely instrumental in enlisting 
increased support in that town and neighbourhood, no less than 
thirty-seven new members, seventeen of them being Life Members, 
being added on that occasion. 
The Union has had to deplore the loss of a few earnest supporters 
by the decease of John Harrison, of Wilstrop Hall, John Wilson, J.P., 
of Seacroft, Owen Platt, of Saddleworth, John Spuriing, Wakefield, 
John Trickett, Dacre Banks, and Dr. Wm. Young of Malton. 
The Financial Position of the Union is much more satis- 
factory than in previous years, your Hon. Treasurer having been able 
by unremitting attention and the valued and efficient aid of the local 
Hon. Treasurers, to collect a large portion of the arrears of subscrip- 
tions which were outstanding twelve months ago, There are now no 
arrears in several of the collecting districts, and the amount of arrears 
actually owing is due from a comparatively small number of members. 
The Publications of the Union have been as in former years. 
The Transactions.—Parts 15 and 16, which are ready, will be 
sent out together before the end of the present month. This brings 
the issue of Transactions down to the end of 1890. Part 17, due 
for 1891, will be devoted to the continuation of Mr. Baker’s ‘North 
Yorkshire,’ and Part 18, for 1892, will in all probability be occupied 
by Mr. Robert Kidston’s Second Report upon the Yorkshire 
Carboniferous flora. There would still remain a large amount of 
MSS. actually in hand, which alone the want of funds prevents your 
Executive from sending to the printers. 
Library continues to increase by means of donations and 
exchanges, and it has been found necessary to re-arrange the books 
in order to economise the limited amount of space available at the 
Leeds Mechanics’ Institution, the directors of which have also placed 
the Union under considerable obligation by their kindness in allowing 
the use of their Council Room for the meetings of your Executive. 
The Union has suffered some inconvenience in consequence of the 
vacancy caused by Mr. Brownridge’s resignation of the office of 
Librarian last year not having been filled up. Your Executive has 
now the pleasure of announcing that a successor has been found in 
Mr. Percy H. Grimshaw. 
The Sections of the Union have steadily carried on their work 
and it is to their systematic organisation that the success of the field 
excursions is largely due. Their efficiency has been materially 
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