284 THE YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION AT ASKERN. 
gave valuable help. The members of this party then took up the 
line appointed for a third one, and investigated the woods at 
Burghwallis and Owston, returning thence to Askern. What 
d : 
ine to most of the members, and had had considerable 
adverse effect on the collecting-grounds, the whole country being 
very dry 
All parties converged on the Swan Hotel at Askern, where tea 
was partaken of. The sectional meetings were, however, first held, 
tea not being ready at the time appointed, in consequence of a 
misunderstanding as to the hour. However, the general meeting 
was held at the time appointed, the bowling-green affording a 
suitable place on so fine a day. The chair was occupied by the 
Rev. William Fowler, M.A., Vicar of Liversedge, an ex-president, 
Mr. Leonard aslangeab acting as hon. secretary, in the unavoid- 
able absence of Mr. Baker. The Societies represented were those 
at Barnsley, ruler Elland, Bradford (Nat. Soc.), Leeds (four 
_ societies), Goole, Dewsbury, Halifax, Doncaster, Ackworth, Hull 
(two societies), Huddersfield, Scarborough, Sheffield, and Liversedge, 
and the total individual attendance was about 60 or 7o. Three new 
members of the Union were elected, viz., Miss L. W. Stephenson, 
of Harrogate; Mr. John Newton Coombe, of Sheffield; and — : fe 
Mr. Claude Leatham, of Wentbridge. On the motion of Mr. James 
Bedford (Leeds) the best thanks of the Union were voted to the © - 
gentlemen who had given leave for their estates to be visited, to 
the leaders of parties, and to the contributors to the excursion- 
programme, after which the sectional reports were called for. 
For the Conchological Section the report was prepared by its 
ies, Messrs. Wm. Nelson (Leeds) and F. W. Fierke (Hull), 
Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, BLS, gave a brief résumé of ee 
observations made. — 
o Ide Fierke’s report | is as follows : She excursion, so” far as 
was held. In_ 1887 the country a: flooded ; one a yeat — ae 
drought had nearly dried everything up, and the district, in 
common with other parts of the country, made a poor hunting 
ground for conchologists for either land or freshwater mollusca, 
-althoug regards ‘the latter, the dykes « Lespeien! 
some of 
