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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION — ANNUAL MEETING. 



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As the retiring Auditors did not offer themselves for re-election, 

 and as the Executive have no power to make suggestions in this 

 i^atter, some little difficulty was experienced in obtaining nomina- 

 tions. At length Mr. J. H. Plowarth, of Skipton, was elected to act 

 With any two other members whom he might choose to form a Com- 

 mittee of three — of which number any two were empowered to act. 



All members of the Union having received voting papers for the 

 election of ten new permanent members of the General Committee, 

 36 papers had been returned to the scrutineers, who reported the 

 following ten to have received the highest number of votes : — Rev. 

 John Hawell, Ingleby Greenhow, Rev. Wm. Spiers, Hull; J. H. 

 Howarth, Skipton; J.J. Marshall, Market Weighton ; J. H. Phillips, 

 Scarborough; Henry Pocklington, F.R.M.S., Leeds; James Rhodes, 

 Keighley; M. L. Thompson, Saltburn ; J. W. Sutcliffe, Halifax; and 

 T. W. Woodhead, Huddersfield. 



The Darlington Naturahsts' Field Club was proposed and 

 seconded in writing, and on the proposition being put to the meeting 

 a- member raised the question as to whether a society outside the 

 county should be admitted into the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. 

 On it being pointed out, however, that although in Durham the 

 members of the club chiefly directed their investigations to the 

 Yorkshire side of the Tees, the Society was unanimously elected 

 into the Union. 



It was then unanimously and enthusiastically resolved that the 

 Honorary Membership of the Union be conferred upon Mr. Richard 

 Spruce, Ph.D., P^.R.G.S., of Coneysthorpe, near Malton, and 

 Mr. George Robert Vine, of Attercliffe, Sheffield, on the ground 

 of their eminent scientific attainments, as well as of the services 

 which they have rendered to the Union in its work. These 

 propositions were made on behalf of the Council. That in 

 Dr. Spruce's case was introduced by Messrs. Charles P. Hobkirk, 

 F-L.S., and M. B. Slater, F.L.S., and supported by a large number 

 of members. The qualifications on which this proposal was 

 grounded are almost too well known to need repetition ; his world- 

 wide reputation as a botanist, and more particularly as regards the 

 mosses and hepatics, in the study of which groups he is recognised 

 ^^ facile pruLceps^ his many discoveries and his addilions to scientific 

 knowledge during his long sojourn and extensive travels in South 

 America, along the rivers Amazon, Negro, and Orinoco, and among 

 the Andes of Ecuador and Peru, his splendid monograph, entitled 

 Hepaticre Amazonicae et xA.ndina2,' and last, but not least, so far as 

 this Union is concerned, the valuable help which he has long given 

 to jhe Bo tanical Section, as well as the List of East Riding Hepatics 



April 1892. 



