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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION ANNUAL MEP:TING. 



99 



Disappearance of Native 



Charles V. liobkirk, F.L.S., Dewsbury 



(Chairman). 

 P. Fox Lee, Dewsbnry(Hon. Secretary). 

 R. Barnes, Saltburn-by-the-Sea. 

 Edward Birks, Sheffield. 

 John Emmet, F.L.S., Boston Spa. 



Plants Committee : — 



John H. Philhps, Scarborough. 

 Rev. W. A. Shuffrey, M.A., Arnchffe. 

 Matthew B. Sktcr, F.L.S., Malton. 

 Rev. Wm. Thompson, M.A., Scdbergh. 

 T. W. Woodhcad, Huddersfield. 



Rev. E. Maulc Cole, M.A., F.G.S., 



Wetwang. 

 Edwin Hawkesworth, Leeds. 

 George Fowler Jones, Malton. 

 A. E. Nichols, A.M.Inst.C.E., Leeds. 

 F. Fielder Walton, F.G.S., Hull. 



Geological Photographs Committee: 



James \V. Davis, F.L.S., F.G.S., 



■F. S.A., Halifax (Chairman). 

 James E. Bedford, F.G.S., Headingley, 



Leeds (Hon. Secretary). 

 Frederick W. Branson, F.LC, F.C.S., 



Leeds. 

 Godfrey Bingley, Leeds. 



Protection of Wild Birds* Eg"g:s Committee ;— 



On the proposal (by letter) of the Rev. E. P. Knubley, M.A., 

 the Union's delegate to the British Association, and suj^ported by 

 members of the Vertebrate Zoology Section, it was resolved to form 

 a new Committee, for the purpose of co-operating with the one 

 appointed at the last meeting of the British Association, to consider 

 proposals for the legislative protection of Wild Birds' Eggs, with 

 instructions to collect evidence as to what birds' eggs should be 

 protected, and how to protect them, and that it consist of the 

 following members : — 



Rev. E. P. Knubley, M.A., Staveley 

 (Chairman). 



James Backhouse, F.Z.S., Harrogate. 



F. Boycs, Jjeverlcy. 



Thomas Bunker, CooJe. 



Riley Fortune, F.Z.S., Harrogate. 



It was resolved that the Secretaries of the corresponding British 

 Association Committees be Honorary Members of the respective 

 Yorkshire Committees, and that the Honorary Secretaries of the 

 Union be ex officio members of all Committees. 



All the retiring Honorary Local Treasurers were re-elected, as 

 follows : — 



John Gerrard, Wakefield. 



T. H. Nelson, M.B.O.U., Redcar. 



Hugh Richardson, M.A., Sedbergh. 



J. C. Swailes, Beverley. 



Rev. W. T. Travis, M.A., Ripley. 



Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S., Leeds. 



W. E. Brady, Barnsley. 



J. D. Butterell, Beverley. 



H. Speight, Bradford. 



J. A. Erskine Stuart, Dewsbury. 



Geo. Winter, Doncaster. 



L. B. Ross, F.C.S., Driffield. 



T. Bunker, Goole. 



W. Cash, F.L.S., Halifax. 



Riley Fortune, F.Z.S., Harrogate. 



John Stears, Hull. 



Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S., Leeds. 



M. B. Slater, F.L.S., Malton. 



T. F. Ward, Middlesbrough. 



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Thos. H. Nelson, M.B.O.U., Redcar. 



Rev. R. A. Summerfield, B.A., Ripon. 



Richard Barnes, vSaltburn. 



J. H. Rowntree, Scarborough. 



Hugh Richardson, M.A., Sedbergh. 



W. N. Cheesman. Selby. 



A. T. Watson, Sheffield. 



J. J. Wilkinson, Skipton. 



J. J. Stead, Spen Valley. 



Wm. Gregson, Thirsk. 



Geo. Parkin, Wakefield. 



Thos. Newbitt, Whitby. 



G. C. Dennis, York. 



Wm. Fletcher, Pickering. 



Mr. A. Clarke was elected to fill the vacancy at Huddersfield. 



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