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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION — ANNUAL REPORT. 



93 



The Membership now stands at 462, being 23 Life Members, 

 6 Honorary Life Members, and 433 Ordinary Members, a net increase 

 of 22 upon tlie previous year. During the year 67 new members 

 have been elected. In this connection, the Union's last annual 

 meeting, held at Halifax, was very largely instrumental in enlisting 

 increased support in that town and neighbourhood, no less than 

 thirty-seven new members, seventeen of them being Life Monbers, 

 being added on that occasion. 



The Union has had to deplore the loss of a few earnest supporters 

 by the decease of John Harrison, of Wilstrop Hall, John Wilson, J. P., 

 of Scacroft, Owen Piatt, of Saddleworth, John Spuriing, Wakefield, 

 John Trickett, Dacre Banks, and Dr. Wm. Young of Malton. 



The Financial Position of the Union is much more satis- 

 factory than in previous years, your Hon. Treasurer having been able 

 by unremitting attention and the valued and efficient aid of the local 

 Hon. Treasurers, to collect a large portion of the arrears of subscrip- 

 tions which were outstanding twelve months ago. There are now no 

 arrears in several of the collecting districts, and the amount of arrears 

 actually owing is due from a comparatively small number of members. 



The Publications of the Union have been as in former years. 



The Transactions. — Parts 15 and 16, which are ready, will be 

 sent out together before the end of the present month. This brings 

 the issue of Transactions down to the end of 1890. Part 17, due 

 for 1891, will be devoted to the continuation of Mr. Baker's 'North 

 Yorkshire,' and Part 18, for 1892, will in all probability be occupied 

 by Mr. Robert Kidston's Second Report upon the Yorkshire 

 Carboniferous flora. There would still remain a large amount of 

 MSS. actually in hand, which alone the want of funds prevents your 

 P^xecutive from sending to the printers. 



The Library continues to increase by means of donations and 

 exchanges, and it has been found necessary to re-arrange the books 

 in order to economise the limited amount of space available at the 

 Leeds Mechanics' Institution, the directors of which have also placed 

 the Union under considerable obligation by their kindness in allowing 

 the use of their Council Room for the meetings of your Executive. 

 The Union has suffered some inconvenience in consequence of the 

 vacancy caused by Mr. Brownridge's resignation of the office of 

 Librarian last year not having been filled up. Your Executive has 

 now the pleasure of announcing that a successor has been found m 

 Mr. Percy H. Grimshaw. 



The Sections of the Union have steadily carried on their work 

 and it is to their systematic organisation that the success of the field 

 excursions is largely due. Their efficiency has been materia lly 



Naturalist, 



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