294 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS UNION AT WITHERNSEA. 
and various ponds as far inland as Roos, returning over Thirtle 
Bridge and along the Waxholme Road to Withernsea. 
All parties, including various late-comers who were unable to 
reach Withernsea in time to join the main parties, congregated 
about half-past four in the afternoon,-in the large refreshment 
room attached to the Pier Hotel, Withernsea. Here, after a 
substantial though plainly-served meat tea, the sectional, and 
afterwards the general, meetings were held. 
At the general meeting, in the absence of the President and 
Vice-Presidents, Mr. John James Stead, of Heckmondwike, was 
voted to the chair. The minutes having been taken as read, the 
roll of Societies was called over, when it was found that the fifty 
or sixty members present were representatives from the following 
Societies, fifteen in number :— Barnsley, Wakefield, Liversedge, 
Goole, Leeds Naturalists’ Club, Conchological Society, Leeds 
Geological Association, Bradford Scientific Association, Halifax, 
Huddersfield, Ravensthorpe, and all the three Hull Societies. 
A couple of new members having been duly elected, Mr. John 
Stears, the Secretary of the Hull Field Naturalists’ Society, proposed, 
Mr. J. J. Marshall, of Market Weighton, seconded, and the 
meeting cordially accepted, a vote of thanks to the various leaders 
of parties and contributors of information to the excursion-pro- 
gramme, as well as. to Messrs. Walter Bailey, James Reckitt, G. 
Dickinson, Thomas Holden, George Clark, Edward Clark, and 
J. Biglin, for allowing members to pursue investigations on their 
lands. The spokesmen of the various sections were then called 
seeing a dead Hedgehog by the road-side near Holmpton. 
For the Conchological Section, the report was given by oP 
of its Secretaries, Mr. Frederick William Fierke, of Hull, who 
stated that the Section was well represented on the excursion, 
the members taking both lines of route. Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, 
F.L.S, (Leeds), Mr. J. Darker Butterell, M.C.S. (Beverley), and 
Mr. Charles Rowson (Hull) followed in the trail of the geologi¢ 
party on their route south to Dimlington. Passing by the village of 
Holmpton they proceeded to the beach, with a view to the a 
tion of the lacustrine deposits exposed in the cliffs ae . 
