YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION—ANNUAL MEETING. Io! 
published in the Transactions, were referred to as making it an 
honour to Yorkshire naturalists to enrol so distinguished a brother 
Yorkshireman as one of the Honorary Life Members. In Mr. Vine’s 
case the nomination was made by Prof. A. H. Green, M.A., F.R.S., 
and Dr. H. Clifton Sorby, F.R.S., who referred to the great value of 
his long-continued and careful researches in connection with fossil 
Polyzoa, and reference was also made to the great obligations under 
which he has laid the Union by his papers upon micro-palzontology, 
which have been published in ‘ The Naturalist,’ all of which make it 
an honour to the Union to be able to add such a name to the list. 
This nomination, like the former one, was also strongly supported 
by the Executive Council. 
The new ordinary members elected were :— 
Ellwood Erockbank, Settle. W. E. Lindley, Skipton 
Jno. G. Chapman, Scarborough. E. W. Read, B.A., Scarborough. 
W. J. Clarke, Scarborough. J]. F. Robinson ll. 
W. Fierke, Hull. Wm. Rowntree, J Fs Scarborough. 
Ernest Fortune, Harrogate. Michael Waller, 
- Hudson, Scarborough. Thi Wilkinson, Skipton: 
P. F. Kendall, F.G.S. Rishon: 
The Sectional Officers were next called upon, when they 
announced the following to have been elected for 1892 :— 
Vertebrate Zoology.— President, Wm. Eagle Clarke. 
F.L.S., M.B.O.U., Edinburgh. Secretaries, James Backhouse, 
F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., Harrogate, and Riley Fortune, F.Z.S., Harrogate 
(re-elected). 
C. Conchology.—President, John W. Taylor, F.L.S., Leeds. 
Secretaries, F. W. Fierke, Hull, and William Nelson, Leeds. 
D. Entomology.—President, Geo. T. Porritt, F.LS., F.ES., 
Huddersfield. Secretaries, J. H. Rowntree, Scarborough, and A. E. 
Hall, F.E.S., Sheffield, all re-elected. 
E, otany.—President, William West, F.L.S., Bradford. 
Secretaries, M. B. Slater, F.L.S., Malton (re-elected), and P. F. 
Lee, Dewsbury. 
F. Geology.—President, J. W. Davis, F.G.S., F.L.S., Halifax. 
Secretaries, W. Lower Carter, M.A., F.G.S., Leeds ehere’ and 
F. Fielder Walton, F.G.S., Hu 
A vote of thanks to the retina President for his services in the 
chair, passed on the motion of the President-elect and seconded by 
Mr. Thomas Tate, F.G.S., concluded the business of the meeting. 
The members then adjourned to the Grand Hotel, where tea was 
served, 
The Annual Public Meeting was held in the large hall of 
the Grand Hotel’ at 7 o'clock, when the chair was occupied by 
Mr. J. W. Woodall, J.P., M.A., F.G.S. The Annual Report, as 
April 1892, 
