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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION. 



ANNUAL MEETING AT HUDDERSFIELD. 



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The 31st Annual Meeting of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, held 

 at Huddersfield, on the 15th of November, >ya3 a most successful 

 and interesting gathering, no pains having been spared by the 

 Huddersfield Naturalists' Society and its members in their endeavours 

 to promote the success of the meeting and the comfort and enjoy- 

 ment of their fellow-members from other towns. To this end they 

 organised an extensive Exhibition of Natural History and Scientific 

 Objects, in the Town Hall, which was open to members and visitors 

 from 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Tlie occasion being that of the 

 looth meeting of the Union smce its re-organisation under the name 

 it now bears, special attention was given to the iUustration of York- 

 shire natural history. 



In Geology and Palaeontology, Messrs. Joseph Field and C. H. 

 Bould had brought together a fine series of Collections of Fossils 

 and Mnierals typical of the Geology of the county, including 

 a number of palaeolithic and neolithic flint implements. Mr. S. 

 Learoyd, F.G.S., exhibited a beautiful collection of agates and other 

 stones to iUustrate 'Silica and Flint in Nature and Art'; and 

 Mr, James Spencer, of Halifax, showed a large series of sections 

 of Coal Plants and other geological slides, chiefly from the Car- 

 boniferous formations. 



The Botanical exhibits included a collection of rare Yorkshire 

 plants, which Mr. T. W. Woodhead had brought together with 

 the assistance of Mr. P. F. Lee, of Dewsbury, and Mr. Charles 

 Crossland, of Flalifax. By the kindness of Mr. H. T. Mennell, of 

 Croydon, he was able to inchide the original record-specimens of 

 some of the plants which were discovered in Upper Teesdale by 

 Mr. James Backhouse and Mr. G. S. Gibson. A feature of great 

 interest in this department was a series of memorial plants which 

 had been named in honour of Yorkshire botanists, which Mr. Wood- 

 head had been at some pains to bring together— accompanied by 

 brief biographical notes, and by the portraits of the various 

 botanists in whose Iionour the plants had been named. 



There wns a large and most interesting series of exhibits in 

 Entomology. Mr. Geo. T. Porritt, F.L.S., showed the matchless 

 series of Arclia Diendica from Gnmescar near Huddersfield, which 

 were described and figured in the Entomological Society's Transac- 

 tions for 1889; also some fine varieties of Arctia luhricipc da from 



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