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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS UNION ANNUAL MEETING. 



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The President occupied tlie Chair. The minutes of the previous 

 Annual Meeting held at Plalifax having been taken as read, the 

 30th Annual Report — ^printed on pp. 9i-95~was read to the 

 Meeting l:)y Mr, Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S., while the Balance Sheet 

 was read by Mr. Wm. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S., and the two taken 

 together were unanimously adopted on the motion of the President^ 

 seconded by Mr. C. D. Hardcastle. 



The Excursion-programme for 1892 as prepared by the Executive 

 was next read, and on the motion of Messrs. G. T. Porritt, F.L.S.j 

 F.E.S., and John Braim, was adopted without discussion as foUows : 



York Mid W., Saturday, May 14th, IIorton-in-Ribblesdale for Pcnyghent. 

 S.Pl, Whit Monday, June 6th, ^Yithernsea. 

 S.W., Saturday, July 9th, Pcnistone and Dunford Bridge. 

 N. W., Bank Holiday Monday,, August 1st, Barnard Castle. 

 N.E., Wednesday and Thursday, September 14th and i5Lh, Fungus Foray 

 and Excursion, Coxwold and Byland. 



For the Annual Meeting in 1892, letters of invitation were 

 read from the Skipton, Huddersfield, and Wakefield Societies. An 

 animated discussion followed, when the representatives of Skipton 

 withdrew their claims with a strong recommendation for the following 

 year. The claims of Huddersheld were strongly urged by the 

 delegates from that town (Messrs. A. Clarke, T. W. Woodhead, 

 G. T. Porritt, F.L.S., &c.). Wakefield was unrepresented, Mr. John 

 Gerrard (President) having been prevented at the last moment from 

 attending. Eventually Huddersheld was selected, the date fixed 

 being Tuesday, November the 15th. 



The election of officers next engaged the attention of the 

 meeting, when Prof. Green remarked that he Avould shortly vacate 

 the position of President of the Union in favour of Mr. Charles P. 

 Hobkirk, F.L.S., Chairman of the Executive Council The reason 

 for modifying the custom of electing the President from outside the 

 working officers of the Union being explained in the concluding 

 paragraph of the Annual Report, page 95. 



On the motion of the President, seconded by Mr. M. B. Slater,. 

 F.L.S., Messrs. Wm. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S. (Sunny Bank, Leeds), 

 Rev. E. P. Knubley, M.A. (Staveley Rectory), and Edgar R. Waite,. 

 F.L.S. (The Museum, Leeds), were re-elected Honorary Secretaries. 

 The proposal of the Executive that Mr. Percy H. Grimshaw should 

 be elected to the vacant ofiice of Librarian was unanimously 



adopted, 

 re-elected, namely: 



The following retiring members of the Executive were 



-Messrs. Tas. W. Davis, F.L.S., F.G.S. (Halifax), 



Charles P. Hobkirk, F.L.S. (Dewsbury), Jno. Emmet, F.L.S- (Boston 

 Spa), Rev. W. Fowler, M.A. (Liversedge), Benj. Holgate, F.G.S. 

 (Leeds), H. T. Soppitt (Bradford), and J. J. Stead (Heckmondwike 

 Messrs. G. T. Porritt, F.L.S., F.E.S. (Huddersfield), a nd John 



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