236 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION—ANNUAL MEETING. 
‘added to the Boulder Committee; Mr. Tom Petch, B.A., to the 
Marine Zoology Committee; and Mr. J. F. Robinson to the 
Disappearance of Plants Committee. The Hon. Local Treasurers 
were re-elected with various additions and substitutions. Mr. Edwin 
Hawkesworth was elected auditor; and Messrs. H. H. Corbett, 
R. Paver Crow, J.P., John Gardner, F.E.S., George Jackson, 
Henry Johnson, R. E. Leach, M.A., F.G.S., Rev. H. E. Maddock, 
M.A., F.G.S., Thomas Mitchelson, W. Y. Veitch, M.D., and 
Charles Waterfall were added to the list of permanent members of 
the General Committee. 
The following were elected new members of the Union :—Messrs. 
Jobn Hill, Morley ; Edward Peake, M.A., Settle; Tom Petch, B.A, — 
Hedon ; E. G. Potter, York ; Albert Rothery, Liversedge. 
Discussion then took place as to the inadequacy of funds for the 
publication of the matter which the Union has in hand for publica- 
tion, and a resolution agreed to on the motion of Mr. J. W. Addyman, 
B.A. (on behalf of Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S.), seconded by 
Mr. S. Chadwick, F.G.S., in favour of a very large addition to the 
membership being secured, and requesting the Executive to devise 
measures to that en 
The question of the desirability of the establishment by Govern- 
ment of Fish Hatcheries was introduced by Mr. E. Howarth, F.R-A.S., 
on whose motion, seconded by Mr. A. T. Watson, it was unanimously 
resolved that ‘in the opinion of this meeting, the establishment by . 
Government of Marine Laboratories and Fish Hatcheries would be ~ 
advantageous to the Fisheries of the United Kingdom. 
The Sections then by their spokesmen announced the names of 
the officers they had elected, after which the proceedings terminated. 
A substantial tea was partaken of in the Mayor's Reception 
Rooms, Mr. A. W. Sykes being the caterer. 
In the evening the members sceiabted in the large hall of the : ae 
Town Hall for the delivery of the Annual Presidential Address. 
‘The chair was occupied by Mr. George T. Porritt, F.L.S., in the 
_ absence of Mr. S. Learoyd, F.G.S., who had been announced to pre- 
side. The Presidential Address, written by Mr. Charles P. Hobkirk, _ 
-F.L.S., whose unavoidable absence was a great disappointment to the 
members, was then read by Mr. Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S., one of the 
Secretaries. The address dealt with the history and methods of work 
= the Union, on the occasion of its completing a series of one hun- — 
dred ngs orga . At the conclusion a cordial — 
en ie eh a be ok 
ve | ident for his address and to Mr. Waite for 
: Bec it, \ was adopted on the motion of Rev. W. Fowler, M.A, _ 
seconded | by Mr. — rere Ss —— 
- Naturalist, 
