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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION— ANNUAL REPORT LOR I 894. 2 1 



Your committee consider there is no room for retrenchment in 

 any department, if the Union is to carry on its work properly and 

 systematically, and they think that vigorous efforts should be at once 

 resorted to to increase the income on the present lines, in order that 

 the operations of the Union may be conducted for the future under 

 favourable conditions, and the liabilities promptly discharged as 



accrued. 



Your Committee have further carefully investigated the position of 



the Union with regard to its Associates. 



They find that the revenue from the affiliated Societies has 

 averaged about ^13 per annum, while the actual extra cost wliich 

 they entail in printing, postage, etc., is about ^23, involving a net 

 charge upon tlie funds of ^10 per annum. 



Apart from this loss, the privileges enjoyed by Associates for 

 a penny per head paid by their local Societies, are so ample as to 

 deter them from becoming direct subscribers to the Union. 



AVhile your Committ^cc fully recognise the value of having upwards 

 of 2,200 Associates interested in Natural History spread over the 

 County, and would be most reluctant to see their privileges in any 

 degree curtailed, the foregoing considerations become important 



factors in dealing with questions of fmance. 



Your Committee can only hope that Yorkshiremen will recognise 

 the importance to natural science of this large membership, and so 

 support the Union by enrolling themselves as members. 



With the object of placing the finances upon a sound working 

 basis, your Committee recommend that a special subscription list be 

 opened, and a sum of at least ^"150 raised, in order that the 

 accounts owing to printers, etc., may be paid, and the publications 



in arrear proceeded with. 



Your Committee further recommend that a simultaneous effort 

 be made this winter to enlist new subscribmg members, and they 

 welcome a suggestion made to them by the Council that letters be 

 addressed to the president of each affiliated society, and further, that 

 a deputation from the Union wait upon each local society at one of 

 its meetings, to lay before its members the strength of the claims which 

 the county Union has upon their sympathy and active support. 



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