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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS UNION ANNUAL MEETING. 



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published in the Transactions, were referred to as making it an 

 honour to Yorkshire naturahsts to enrol so distinguished a brother 

 Yorkshireman as one of the Honorary Life Members. In Mr. Vine's 

 case the nomination was made by Prof. A. H. Green, M.A., F.R.S., 

 and Dr. H. Clifton Sorby, F.R.S., who referred to the great value of 

 his long-continued and careful researches in connection with fossil 

 Polyzoa, and reference was also made to the great obligations under 

 which he has laid the Union by his papers upon micro-palaeontology, 

 which have been published in 'The Naturahst/ all of which make it 

 an honour to the Union to be able to add such a name to the list. 

 This nomination, hke the former one, was also strongly supported 

 by the Executive Council. 



The new ordinary members elected were :^ 



EUwood Erockbank, Settle. 

 Jno. G. Chapman, Scarljorough. 

 W. J. Clarke, Scarborough. 



F. W. Kierke, Hull. 



Ernest Fortune, Harrogate. 



D. Hudson, Scarborough. 



P. F. Kendall, F.G.S., Stockport. 



The Sectional Ofhcers were 



W. E. Lindley, Skipton. 



E. W. Read. liA., Scarborough. 



J. F. Robinson, Hull. 



Wm. Rowntree, J. P., Scarborough. 



Michael Waller, 'Hull. 



J. J. Wilkinson, Skipton. 



next called 



upon, when they 

 announced the following to have been elected for 1892: — 



B. Vertebrate Zoology 



M.B.O.U., Edinburgh. 



President, Wm. Eagle Clarke, 

 F.L.S., M.B.O.U., Edinburgh. Secretaries, James Backhouse, 

 F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., Harrogate, and Riley Fortune, F.ZS., Harrogate 



(re-elected). 



C. Conchology.^President, John W. Taylor, F.L.S., Leeds. 



Secretaries, F. W. Fierke, Hull, and Wilham Nelson, Leeds. 



D. Entomology. — ^President, Geo. T. Porritt, F.L.S., F.E.S., 

 Huddersfield. Secretaries, J. H. Rowntree, Scarborough, and A. E. 

 Hall, F.E.S., Sheffield, all re-elected. 



E. Botany. — President, Wilham West, F.L.S., Bradford. 

 Secretaries, M. B. Slater, F.L.S., Malton (re-elected), and P. F. 



Lee, Dewsbury. 



F. Geology. — President, J. W. Davis, F.G.S., F.L.S., Halifax. 

 Secretaries, W. Lower Carter, M.A., F.G.S., Leeds (re-elected), and 



F. Fielder Walton, F.G.S., Huh. 



A vote of thanks to the retiring President for his services in the 

 chair, passed on the motion of the President-elect and seconded by 

 Mr. Thomas Tate, F.G.S., concluded the business of the meeting. 



The members then adjourned to the Grand Hotel, where tea was 



served. 



The Annual Public Meeting was held in the large hall of 



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the Grand Hotel at 7 o'clock, when the chair was occupied by 

 Mr. J. W. Woodall, J.P., M.A-, F.G.S. The Annual Re port, as 



Naturalist, 



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