208 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION AT ROKEBY. 
Conveyances were requisitioned at the ‘ Morritt Arms,’ and after 
a much-appreciated drive, Barnard Castle was again reached by those 
members who did not remain in the neighbourhood for further 
investigation. Proceeding by train to Darlington, they assembled 
for tea at the North Eastern Hotel, where also the sectional and 
general meetings were held. 
Mr. Wm. Cash, F.G.S., of Halifax, occupied the chair at the 
general meeting. The business included the election of four new 
members, viz. :—Messrs. Wm. E. Asquith, Leeds; Wm. Creaser, 
York ; Thomas. J. Morley, Beverley ; and Joseph Whitaker, 
Halifax. 
On the motion of the Chairman, seconded by Mr. Wm. Denison 
Roebuck, F.L.S., the Rev. E. P. Knubley, M.A. (one of the Hon. 
Secretaries of the Union), was unanimously re-elected delegate to 
the forthcoming meeting of the British Association to be held at 
Edinburgh in the beginning of August. The roll-call showed the 
following affiliated societies to be represented at the meeting :— 
Wakefield, Ovenden, Bradford, Leeds, Leeds Co-operative, York, 
Malton, Halifax, Cleveland, Ripon, Harrogate, Thirsk, Scarborough, 
Ellesmere, Huddersfield, and Darlington Naturalists’ Societies, 
Leeds and Hull Geological Associations, Scarborough Philosophical, 
Bradford Scientific and the Conchological Society. 
On the proposition of Mr. John Thrippleton, of Leeds, seconded 
by Mr. W. H. Stansfield, of Southport, a vote of thanks was accorded 
to Mrs. Morritt, Mr. G. Gilpin Brown, and Lord Strathmore, for 
granting permission for the exploration of their respective estates ; 
to Mr. J. G. Goodchild, F.G.S., Mr. W. Y. Veitch, and Mr. Baker 
Hudson, for assisting the Hon. Secretaries with the excursion- 
programme, and to Mr. W. F. Kealing Stock, F.C.S., Mr. J. C 
TAnson, and Mr. J. G. Brass for kindly leading parties during 
the day. 
The next business was the rendering of the Sectional Reports :— 
For the Vertebrate Section, Mr. Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S., one of the 
General Secretaries of the Union, stated that he only officiated in 
connection with the section in the absence of all its officers. The 
overwhelming heat had had a marked effect upon the birds, which 
instead of being proverbially lively, had evinced a desire to sit still 
under the shade of the trees, so that together with a similar disinclina- 
tion on the part of the few observers who were present, and the short 
time actually spent on the field, the opportunities of making anything 
like an adequate record were small. 
Along the right bank of the Tees the Stockdove was fairly 
common, breeding in the nooks and crannies of the rocks in company 
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