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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION. 
ANNUAL MEETING AT SCARBOROUGH. 
THE Annual Meetings of the Union are not so popular as the 
excursions, for they are almost wholly of a business nature, and, 
moreover, are held at a proverbially dull season of the year. With 
regard, however, to the 30th Annual Meeting held at Scarborough 
on the 14th November last, it was with respect both to the attend- 
ance and the interest maintained, an unqualified success, Perhaps 
no place in the county—or out of it—could have been chosen more 
attractive to Yorkshire people than Scarborough. The Meeting had 
been fixed for Saturday, in order that the week-end might be spent 
at the sea-side. Arrangements had been made by means of which 
Members and Associates taking tickets on Friday or Saturday, might 
return on the following Monday or Tuesday. In addition to this the 
North Eastern Railway Company had, at the instigation of the Union, 
kindly run an excursion train from West Yorkshire, which enabled 
persons attending the meeting to return to their homes the same 
evening if desired. Quite one-third of the number of members 
attending the excursion took advantage of the arrangements for 
spending Sunday at this popular watering-place. The weather also 
was as delightful as could possibly be wished. 
The local efforts to make the meeting a success had also been 
as strenuous as possible. By the kindness of the Scarborough 
Philosophical Society the Museum was placed entirely at the disposal 
of the Union, and this Society, together with the Field Naturalists’ 
Club, invited the visitors to a conversazione, at which many valuable 
and interesting objects were to be shown, the most attractive exhibit 
undoubtedly being Mr. Alderman Champley’s unrivalled series of 
nine authentic eggs of the Great Auk. 
The proceedings commenced at 3 o’clock, when the Sectional 
Meetings were held in the various rooms of the Museum, after which 
a Conference of the Committees of Research took place. At 4 o’clock 
the General Committee met in the Library. Sixteen affiliated Societies 
were represented, nine of them being by direct delegation and the 
remaining seven by permanent members of the General Committee. 
The attendance also included the President (Prof. A. H. Green, 
F.R.S., F.G.S.), the President-elect (Mr. Charles P. Hobkirk, F.L.S.), 
two of the Hon. Secretaries (Messrs. Wm. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S., 
and Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S.), four members of the Executive, three 
Presidents and five Secretaries of Sections, four local Treasurers, and 
twelve other permanent members of the General Committee, making 
a total of forty-three. 
