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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION ANNUAL REPORT. 



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assisted by the adoption of a system ofiVnnual Minute Books, which 

 at the dose of each year are to be deposited in the Library, when 

 a new one will be issued. An attempt is being made by the Hon. 

 Secretaries to recover all the Minute Books, Papers, and records of 

 the various sections for previous years, and it is hoped that all past 

 Sectional officers will aid in this endeavour by returning such as may 

 be in their possession. 



The Committees of Research have continued their investi- 

 gations during the year with more or less satisfactory results, and 

 liave thoroughly maintained the reputation which the Union enjoys 

 as a distinctively working body. 



The Committee for collecting and recording Geological Photo- 

 graphs, of which Mr. James E. Bedford, F.G.S., is the Secretary, has 

 again worked with remarkable success, and from the second report 

 of the P^ritish Association Committee it appears that a considerably 

 larger number of Photographs has been sent in from Yorkshire than 

 from any other county. Many of them ai'e of particular value as they 

 refer to Sections which cannot again be photographed, such as fossil 

 trees laid bare in quarrying and excavations for the foundations of 

 buildings, etc. 



The Boulder Committee has again been the means of communi- 

 cating a considerable number of reports on Erratic blocks, and 

 Yorkshire still continues to hold a prominent place in the British 

 Association Committee's report. 



The Yorkshire Fossil Flora Committee.— Mr. Robert Kidston is 

 engaged upon a third report of the Yorkshire Carboniferous Flora, 

 which, together wuth the second report, will duly appear in the 

 Transactions. ' 



The Coast Erosion Committee.^The work of this Committee 

 during the year appears to have been entirely confined to measure- 

 ments, taken by the Secretary (tlie Rev. E. Maule Cole, M.A.). 



The Disappearance of Plants Committee has only had a moderate 

 amount of assistance during the year, and a limited number of 

 observations have been sent in. 



The Committee appointed for the investigation of the Crypto- 

 ganiic Flora and Invertebrate Fauna of the Freshwaters of Yorkshire, 

 lias, through the instrumentality of its Secretary, Mr. J. M. Kirk, 

 F.R.M.S., accomplished a considerable amount of work in the 

 neighbourhood of Doncaster, and hopes to receive support from 



other districts in the county. 



The Marine Zoology Committee has had one opportunity of 

 prosecuting its work in connection with the excursions, and at 

 Hayburn AVyke two members devoted themselves to the investigation 



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