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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION. 
ANNUAL MEETING AT HUDDERSFIELD. 
THE 31st Annual Meeting of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union, held 
at Huddersfield, on the 15th of November, was 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. The occasion being that of the 
rooth meeting of the Union since its re-organisation under the name 
it now bears, special attention was given to the illustration of York- 
shire natural history. 
In Geology and Paleontology, Messrs. Joseph Field and C. H. 
Bould had brought together a fine series of Collections of Fossils 
and Minerals typical of the Geology of the county, including 
a number of paleolithic and neolithic flint implements. Mr. S. 
Learoyd, F.G.S., exhibited a beautiful collection of agates and other 
_ stones to jitisitrdie ‘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 Halifax. By the kindness of Mr. H. T. Mennell, of — 
_ Croydon, he was able to include 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 — 
head had been at some pains to bring together by ae 
_ brief biographical notes, and by the ‘portraits of the various . 
botanists in whose honour the plants had been named. — 
oS There was a large and most interesting series of cabatoats in 
_ Entomology. Mr. Geo. T. Porritt, F.L.S., showed the matchless _ 
Series of Arctia mendica from Grimescar near Huddersfield, which 
_ Were described and figured i in the Entomological Society’s Transac- 
__ had been named in honour of Yorkshire botanists, which Mr. Wood- a 
tions tions for eide also some fine varieties: Johnie aeagand ons ee 
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