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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION ANNUAL REPORT. 



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of the Marine Zoology. It is, however, much to be deplored that 

 SO few persons take an active interest in this subject, considering the 

 extent and variety of the Yorkshire Coast-line. 



British Association. — The Union has again been appointed 

 one of the Corresponding Societies of the Association, and was 

 represented at the Cardiff meeting by the Rev. E. P. Knubley, M.A., 

 whose report is printed in the ^ Naturahst,' pages 57-71. 



The President and the next Annual Meeting. — It is with great 

 pleasure that your Executive have to announce that the presidency 

 has been offered to and accepted by an old and valued member of 

 the Union, viz. : Mr. Charles P. Hobkirk, F.L.S. The circumstance 

 that the next Annual Meeting will be tlie loist meeting of the Union 

 since its reorganisation in 1876, renders it a suitable opportunity in 

 which to review the past history and methods of work, and having 

 regard to the long period during which Mr. Hobkirk has been closely 

 and intimately connected with the Union, as well as to the value of 

 his own scientific work, your Executive feel that no more appropriate 

 selection could have been made. 



To Prof. A. H. Green, M.A., F.R.S., the Union wishes to place 

 on record its sense of gratitude for the honour he has conferred upon 

 it by his tenure of ofhce as President, for the year which now comes 

 to a close. 



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