l6 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION — ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1894. 



A Committee was appointed by the last annual meeting to^ 

 consider tlie state of the finances, and their report will be presented 

 independently; but your Executive may take this opportunity of 

 stating that they fully conciu" in that Committee's views and .in the 



recommendations made. 



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

 Of the Transactions there has been no part issued during the year, 

 the reason beinir that the authors of the various works which are 



in progress have not been prepared to furnish the requisite MSS. 

 Mr. M. B. Slater has in preparation the moss portion of Baker's 

 'North Yorkshire,' the Rev. W. C. Hey the continuation of his 

 List of Yorkshire Beedes, and it is hoped that one or both v/ill be 

 ready during the coming year. 



The 'Naturalist' has been pubhshed monthly during the year 

 under the sole editorship of Mr, W. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S.^ 

 under whose painstaking management it has fully sustained tlie 

 re[)utation which it has of late years enjoyed, and is now the 

 recognised mediimi for natural history pul.)hcations for the whole 



of the Nortli of England. 



Your Executive and the Editor would take this opportunity of 

 reminding members that the journal is sufFicienrly catholic in its 

 scope to welcome articles dealing with the lifediistory of animals 

 and plants as observed in the northern counties, as well as with 

 any biological and general considerations that the local observations 



[live rise to. 



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

 books sent by publishers for review m ' The NaturaUst.' Our 

 •Honorary Librarian, Mr. Leonard Hawkesworth, to whom the Union 

 is much indebted for his services in that capacity, wishes to du'cct 

 the attention of members to the 0[)portunities afforded them of 

 consulting works on all branches of Natural Science. 



The Sections of the Union have steadily carried on their work 

 and it is to their systematic organisation that the success of the field 

 excursions is largely due. Their efficiency has been materially 

 assisted by the adoption of a system of Annual Minute Books, which 

 at the close of each year are to be deposited in the Library, when 

 a new one will be issued. 



The Hon. Secretaries will be glad if those members who have in 

 their possession any of the Minute Books, Papers, and records of 

 the various sections for previous years, will kindly return them to die 

 Hon. Secretaries as soon as possible. 



The Committee of Research have continued their investi- 

 G;ations during the year with more or less satisfactory results. 



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