YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION—-ANNUAL MEETING. 97 
The President occupied the Chair. The minutes of the previous 
Annual Meeting held at Halifax having been taken as read, the 
30th Annual Report—printed on pp. g1-95—was read to the 
Meeting by Mr. Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S., while the Balance Sheet 
was read by Mr. Wm. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S., and the two taken 
together were unanimously adopted on the motion of the President, 
seconded by Mr. C. D. Hardcastle. 
The Excursion-programme for 1892 as prepared by the Executive 
was next read, and on the motion of Messrs. G. T. Porritt, F.L.S., 
F.E.S., and John Braim, was adopted without discussion as follows :— 
York Mid W., Saturday, May 14th, Horton-in-Ribblesdale for Penyghent. 
»» S.E., Whit Monday, June i 
» N.W., Bank Holiday Monday, August Ist, Barnard Castle. 
»» N.E., Wednesday and Thursday, September 14th and 15th, Fungus Foray 
and Excursion, Coxwold and Byland 
For the Annual Meeting in 1892, letters of invitation were 
tead from the Skipton, Huddersfield, and Wakefield Societies. An 
animated discussion followed, when the representatives of Skipton 
withdrew their claims with a strong recommendation for the following 
year. The claims of Huddersfield were strongly urged by the 
delegates from that town (Messrs. A. Clarke, T. W. Woodhead, 
G. T. Porritt, F.L.S., &c.). Wakefield was unrepresented, Mr. John 
Gerrard (President) having been prevented at the last moment from 
attending. Eventually Huddersfield was selected, the date fixed 
being Tuesday, November the rsth. 
The election of officers next engaged the attention of the 
meeting, when Prof. Green remarked that he would shortly vacate 
the position of President of the Union in favour of Mr. Charles P. 
Hobkirk, F.L.S., Chairman of the Executive Council. The reason 
for modifying the custom of electing the President from outside the 
working officers of the Union being explained in the concluding 
paragraph of the Annual Report, page 95- . 
On the motion of the President, seconded by Mr. M. B. Slater, 
F.L.S., Messrs. Wm. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S. (Sunny Bank, Leeds), 
Rey. E. P. Knubley, M.A. (Staveley Rectory), and Edgar R. Waite, 
F.L.S. (The Museum, Leeds), were re-elected Honorary Secretaries. 
The proposal of the Executive that Mr. Percy H. Grimshaw should 
be elected to the vacant office of Librarian was unanimously 
adopted. The following retiring members of the Executive were 
re-elected, namely :—Messrs. Jas. W. Davis, F.L.S., F.G.S, (Halifax), 
Charles P. Hobkirk, F.L.S. (Dewsbury), Jno. Emmet, F.L.S. (Boston 
Spa), Rev. W. Fowler, M.A. (Liversedge), Benj. Holgate, F.G.S. 
(Leeds), H. T. Soppitt (Bradford), and J. J. Stead (Heckmondwike). 
Messrs. G. T. Porritt, F.L.S., F-E.S. (Huddersfield), and John 
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April 1892. 
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