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The Naturalist. 



and Prof. A. H.Green, M.A., F.G.S., Leeds, president, and Mr. B. 

 Holgate, Leeds, secretary, of the Geological Section. Tea was served at 

 4-30 p.m., and at 5-30 p.m. The annual general meeting was commenced 

 at 6-30 p.ia.-) the chair being taken by Prof. W. C. Williamson, F.P.S., 

 of the Owen's College, Manchester. The minutes of the previous annual 

 meeting were taken as read. The list of new subscribers, to whom thanks 

 were voted, included Lord Herries, Lord-Lieutenant of the East Riding, 

 Dr. A. K. Polhtt, F.R.A.S., of Hull, the Rev. Joseph Foxley and Mr. 

 J. Proudcock, of Market Weighton ; Messrs. W. Brook, T. Bunker, and 

 J. Harrison, of Goole ; John Harrison of Wilstrop, Wm. Atkinson of 

 Leeds, Wm. Foggitt of Thirsk, J. Ligleby of Eavestone, J. H. Wilson of 

 Harrogate, Wm. Hewett of York, and Edwd. Hailstone, F.S.A., of 

 W'alton Hall. Thanks were voted for donations to the library, including 

 various societies' publications sent in exchange. The annual report and 

 balance sheet were read by Mr. Geo. Brook, ter., F.L.S., secretary, as 

 follows : — 



"The Council, in presenting the 19th annual report, have to congratulate the 

 members on the steady continuance of the progress which has marked the 

 history of the Union since its re-organisation. The reports of the varioas 

 sections will show what progress has been made in the direction of the investi- 

 gation of the Natural History of the county. During the year six excursion 

 meetings have been held as follows : — Eipon, March 29 ; Malton, May 16 ; 

 Barnsley, June 12 ; Boston Spa, July 14 ; Marsden, Aug. 2 ; Market Weighton, 

 Sept. 4. It had been intended to have in the autumn a special meeting for the 

 collection and study of fungi, at which a number of the best British mycolo- 

 gists would have been present and assisted the Union with their special know- 

 ledge and experience, but reasons of a financial nature compelled its postponement 

 to a future year. A gratifying result of the second meeting — the one held at 

 Malton — was the subsequent formation of a strong Naturahsts' Club in the town, 

 the direct outcome of the impression produced by the visit of the Union. The 

 club— now associated with us — numbers sixty members. When the year com- 

 menced there were in the Union 26 societies. None have withdrawn ; and on 

 the other hand, two — the Malton Naturalists' Club, 60 members, to which 

 reference has just been made ; and the Hull Field Naturalists' Society, 23 

 members — have joined during the year. These additions bring up the total 

 number to 28, of which one is in the North Biding, two in the East, and the 

 remainder in the West Biding. The statistics which have been furnished to the 

 Union by the secretaries of the different societies show that the individual 

 membership is in the aggregate 1, 422 . Adding to this figure the 250 subscribers, it 

 will be seen that the Union now consists of 1,672, an increase of 169 upon the 

 previous year. The draft of the proposed map has been at a total standstill 

 during the year. Ths loss of Dr. Parsons has been here very keenly felt, and 

 the map committee would be glad to meet with some competent geologist who 

 would take up the mapping out of the lithology at the point where Dr. Parsons 

 left it. Mr. Filliter, of Leeds, to whom the Union is much indebted for having 

 gratuitously traced the contour-hnes for the greater portion of the county, has 

 also been compelled — by the exigencies of a large and increasing practice— to 

 resign into the hands of the committee the work so far as he has been able to do 



