YORKSHIRE NATURALLSTS' UNION ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1S93. 9 



the decease of ATr. J- W. Davis, of Halifax; Mr. George Brook, 

 formerly of Hucldersfieltl and more lately of Kew ; Dr. Eleazar 

 Sherwood, of AA'hitby : Dr. W. J. Lancaster, of Barnsley ; and 

 Mr. G. R. Vine, of Sheffield. 



Mr. J. W. Davis had been for many years an active worker, and 

 ■^ \'a]ued member of the Executive, and would shortly have been 

 ■elected a President of the Union if death had not removed him from 



amongst us. 



Mr. Brook was Mr. Roebuck's first colleague as Hon. Secretary, 

 -an office which lie filled until his removal to Edinburgh. 



The financial position of the Union is not by any means so 

 ■satisfactory as your Executive could desire. And it is very much to 

 be deplored that for want of due thought and consideration so many 

 niembers should, l)y non-payment of the subscriptions which they 

 ^mdertook to contribute, so seriously hamper the Union in the 

 discharge of its own liabilities, and it is to be hoped that this hint 



^vill serve to stimulate them to lighten the responsibility which rests ' 

 ■on the shoulders of the Hon. Treasurers, by a more prompt 

 <:omp]iance with their requests for the payment of subscriptions than 

 they are in many cases accustomed to. Your Executive trust, also, 

 that the Associates will show, in a practical inanner, their a[)preciation 

 of the value of the Union's scientific work by becoming members in 

 sufficiently large numbers. 



Proposed Increase of Membership.— At the last Annual 



Meeting it was resolved that an effort should be made to double the 

 niembershi]), to which end invitations are being addressed to the 

 Associates and others to allow their names to be added to the list for 

 94. Your Executive trust there will be a large, generous and 



willing response to this appeal. 



The Publications of the Union have been as in former years. 

 The Transactions.— Part iS, for 1S92, occupied by Mr. Robert 



Kidston's Second Report upon the Yorkshire Carboniferous fiora, 

 ^^as been issued during the year, and Part 19 is in active preparation. 

 The Naturalist has been published montlily during the year 

 tinder the sole Editorship of' Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, E.L.S., 

 Mr. Waite havinir retired on his leavin'^ Endand. 



The Library continues to mcrease, by means of exchanges, and 

 books sent by iniblishers for review in 'The Naturalist.' The 

 borrowings have far exceeded those of any previous year, and the 

 -attention of members is directed to the opportunities afforded them 

 C'f consulting works on all branches of Natural Science. 



The Sections of the Union have steadily carried on their work 

 ^^nd it is to their systematic ort^anisation that the success of the field 



