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Boulby Cliff. The principal features were the strength 
geological contingent; and the list of birds, noted by Mr. 
McLean, who is a local resident, included over one hundred spe 
VI.—The sixth and last meeting was the ‘Fungus F 
Selby, September roth to 22nd. This was the most successful 
held by the Union. Every member of the Yorkshire Mycological - 
Committee was there; also several visitors from other parts 
England. 
Altogether, we have great reason to congratulate ourselves 00 
success of the excursions for 1896. : 
The year now ended has been a very eventful one in the nis 
of the Union from the fact that we have lost by death three © 
Presidents within eighteen months, whereas we had not lost one 
the nineteen previous years. We have also to deplore the death 
Mr. Thomas Hick, Chairman of the Fossil Flora Committee, * 
three distinguished life-members. : 
The first of the Ex-Presidents was Professor William ! 
Williamson, one of the oldest Fellows of the Royal Society: 
Professor of Natural History and Geology at Owens College. et 
are few men, his contemporaries, who have done more 
There is an excellent memoir of him in our journal. — 
The next to leave us was Henry Seebohm, the 
ornithologist ; he died November 26th, 1895. His travels and pri 
‘Siberia in Europe’ and ‘ Siberia in Asia,’ also his ‘ History 
Birds’ and other books, and numerous papers in 
other journals, have placed him in the front rank 
ornithologists. He was a most generous and kind-h ie 
the whole of his magnificent collection of birds was bequ 
the British Museum, and is now national property: - 
The third Ex-President was one who filled the P 
chair in 1891, Professor A. H. Green, F.RS» 
Geology at the University of Oxford. He was in 
of European geologists; author of the classical wo genial 
shire coal-field. He was, moreover, one of the most | 
amiable of men, always ready to dispense his V 
for the benefit of local workers and local societies In we 
In Lord Lilford we lost a most valuable life™ the 
splendid works, ‘The Illustrations of British Birds,’ > ghere DS 
magnificent volumes of the ‘Birds of Northamptonshit® ig 
ember. 
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