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PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS 
TO THE YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION: 
DELIVERED AT LEEDS, NOVEMBER 26th, 1896. 
JOHN CORDEAUX, F.R.G.S, M.B.O.U., 
Great Cotes House, R.S.O., Lincoin. 
Lapies AND GENTLEMEN,—A chief duty to-night, on the termina- 
tion of my year of office as President of our Union, is to express 
my thanks for the very great honour you conferred when you elected 
me. My second duty is to vacate the chair in favour of my most 
1—The first Excursion was on April 18th, to Hackfall and 
Tanfield and the banks of the Ure to Ripon. Mr. H. Crowther 
Occupied the chair at the meeting. Botanically, the meeting was 
a great success; the most remarkable plant found was a little 
mountain one—Hutchinsia petrea ; the seeds probably washed down 
from some Wensleydale ridge. 
Il.—The second, May 25th—Whit Monday—to Bolland, was 
a four days’ excursion. This was, altogether, a great scientific 
ss, although the attendance was by no means what was 
ra was collected, and the 
. the vale of York, and form the successive terminal moraines of the 
IV.—The meeting on July 11th was arranged for : 
Woods, Roche Abbey, and the district bordering on Nottingham- 
The scientific results were most noticeable in the excellent 
Work done in diatoms and the micro-fauna of the district. 
V.—On August 3rd (the 126th meeting of the Union), Staithes 
othe neighbouring coast was visited, from Runswick Bay to 
1897, 
