84 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS UNION. 
these operations are completed we may expect a period of less 
activity in this direction, and it is very much to be regretted if 
full advantage of the present favourable opportunities for 
increasing the knowledge of the coal flora be allowed to slip. 
In addition to the new pits being sunk in the neighbourhood 
of Barnsley, I believe one is to be put down shortly in the 
Doncaster district, and others at Rotherham and near Feather- 
stone." 
Should full advantage be taken of the present opportunities 
of securing fossil plants from the Yorkshire coal field, there is 
little doubt that the next Report will contain many records of 
great interest. 
(1) As reported in the Barnsley Independent, Nov. 21, 1891. 
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Geol, Trans. Y.N.U., 1892. 
