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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION. 



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32nd ANNUAL REPORT, for 1893. 



i HE year which is just coming to a close is a memorable one in the 

 annals of the Union, by reason of the changes wlhch have taken 

 place in the list of officers chosen a year ago. Of these, one of tlie 

 Honorary Secretaries (Mr. Edgar R. Waite) has now taken up an 

 ^appointment in Sydney, and our Honorary Librarian (Mr. P. H.. 

 Orimshaw) a similar one in Edinburgli, while, of the members of the 

 Executive, two (Mr. Jno. Gerrard and Mr. Charles Brownridge) have 

 left Yorkshire, and a tliird has been lost to us by death, making an 

 unprecedented number of vacancies in so small a body. The Union 

 lias been greatly indebted to Mr. Edgar R. Waite and Mr. P. H. 

 Grimshaw for their energetic and unstinted labours in its behalf, and 

 their simultaneous removal very seriously weakened, for a time, tlie 

 effective power of the Union. Fortunately, we have been able to 

 find most suitable successors in Mr. Walter F. Baker and 

 Mr. Leonard Hawkesworth, both of whom have proved themselves 

 ^vorthy successors of the valued members we have lost. The 

 vacancies in the Executive have now been filled up by the election 

 of the Rev. E. P. Knubley, M.A., Mr. Albert H. Pawson, and 

 Mr. Wra. Cash, F.G.S. 



The Meeting's held during the year have been five in number 

 ^^s usual, one for each division of the county. 



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The districts chosen for investigation and the dates of the 

 nieetinijs were as follows : — 



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May 22nd, Whit-Monday, Aysgarth. 

 June 15th, Thursday, Askern. 

 July loth, Monday, Kirkliy Moorside. 

 August 7th, Hank Iloliday IMonday, Sawley Abbey. 

 September 6th and 7th, Wednesday and Thursday, Pocklington, 

 Funs^us Foray and Excursion. 



The usual descriptive circular for each excursion was issued to 

 nienibers and associates. 



The opening excursion of the year was for the investigation of 

 ^ne neighbourhood of Aysgarth and Carperby, Bishopdale and 

 Waldendale, and the lower slopes of Penhill, Mr. J. Gerrard^ 

 ■■^.B.O.U., President of the Vertebrate vSection, occupying the chair. 



The second meeting was held at Askern for tlie investigation 



^^ the neighbourhood of Askern, Campsallj .Shirley Pool and 



Jungle, Ouston, Burghwallis, &c. The Rev. Wm. Fowler, M.A., 



an exTresident of the Union, occupied the chair at the General 

 Meeting 



