i gele) YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION—ANNUAL MEETING. 
As the retiring Auditors did not offer themselves for re-election, 
and as the Executive have no power to make suggestions in this 
matter, some little difficulty was experienced in obtaining nomina- 
tions. At length Mr. J. H. Howarth, of Skipton, was elected to act 
with any two other members whom he might choose to form a Com- 
mittee of three—of which number any two were empowered to act. — 
All members of the Union having received voting papers for the 
election of ten new permanent members of the General Committee, 
36 papers had been returned to the scrutineers, who reported the 
following ten to have received the highest number of votes :-—Rev. 
John Hawell, Ingleby Greenhow; Rev. Wm. Spiers, Hull; J. H. 
Howarth, Skipton ; J. J. Marshall, Market Weighton ; J. H. Phillips, 
Scarborough ; Henry Pocklington, F.R.M.S., Leeds; James Rhodes, 
Keighley ; M. L. Thompson, Saltburn ; J. W. Sutcliffe, Halifax ; and 
T. W. Woodhead, Huddersfield 
The Darlington Naturalists’ Field Club was proposed and 
seconded in writing, and on the proposition being put to the meeting 
a member raised the question as to whether a society outside the 
county should be admitted into the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union. 
On it being pointed out, however, that although in Durham the 
members of the club chiefly directed their investigations to the 
Yorkshire side of the Tees, the Society was unanimously elected 
into the Union. 
It was then unanimously and enthusiastically resolved that the 
Honorary Membership of the Union be conferred upon Mr. Richard 
Spruce, Ph.D., F.R.G.S., of Coneysthorpe, near Malton, and 
Mr. George Robert Vine, of Attercliffe, Sheffield, on the ground 
of their eminent scientific attainments, as well as of the services 
which they have rendered to the Union in its work. These 
propositions were made on behalf of the Council. That in 
Dr. Spruce’s case was introduced by Messrs. Charles P. Hobkirk, 
F.L.S., and M. B. Slater, F.L.S., and supported by a large number 
of members. The qualifications on which ‘this proposal was 
grounded are almost too well known to need repetition ; his world- 
wide reputation as a botanist, and more particularly as regards the 
mosses and _ hepatics, in the study of which groups he is recognised 
as facile princeps, his many discoveries and his additions to scientific 
nowledge during his long sojourn and extensive travels in South 
America, along the rivers Amazon, Negro, and Orinoco, and among 
the Andes of Ecuador and Peru, his splendid monograph, entitled 
‘ Hepaticee Amazonicz et Andinz,’ and last, but not least, so far as 
this Union is concerned, the valuable help which he has long given 
to the Botanical Section, as well as the List of East Riding Hepatics 
Naturalist, 
