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THE YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION: 

 ANNUAL MEETING AT DEWSBURY. 



The twenty -fifth annual meeting, held this year at Dewsbury, on 



Monday, the 14th March, was a most successful one, thanks to the 



exertions of the members of the Dewsbury Society. There was a 



very large attendance of the Members and Associates from all parts of 



the county. By kind permission of the Committee of the Dewsbury 



Co-operative Society, rooms in their buildings were placed at the 



disposal of the Union. The proceedings commenced at 3.30 p.m., 



when the General Committee met in the Library for the transaction 



of the Union's business. The chair was occupied by the President, 



the Rev. W. H. Dallinger, LL.D., F.R.S., etc., and in addition to the 



official representatives of thirteen societies, there were present a large 



proportion of the officers of the Union and the permanent members 



of the Committee. The minutes of the preceding annual meeting 



having been read and confirmed, two societies which had made 



application — the Ackworth School N. H. S., and the Leeds Y. M. C. A. 



Nat. Club — were unanimously admitted into the Union. The 



election (also unanimous) as new Members of the Union, of 



Mr. W. W. Booth (Leeds), Mr. John H. Bromley (Leeds), 



Rev. Canon J. Ingham Brooke, M.A. (Rector of Thornhill), 



Mr. William Cash, F.G.S. (Halifax), Rev. Robert Fisher, M.A. 



(Vicar of Sewerby), Mr. F. R. Fitzgerald (Harrogate), Mr. Riley 



Fortune (Harrogate), Mr. John Gerrard (Wakefield), Mr. Thomas 



Grant (Pocklington), Mr. Percy H. Cirimshaw (Burley-in-Wharfedale), 



Mr. T. S. Hall (Wetherby), Mr. C. D. Hardcastle (Leeds), Mr. T. H. 



Nelson, M.B.O.U. (Redcar), Mr. R. Reynolds, F.C.S. (Leeds), 



Rev. C. Fullerton (Vicar of Lund), and Mr. Samuel Walker (York) — 



then took place. It is the privilege of the General Committee to add 



to its own number ten permanent members, and this privilege was 



utilised, Messrs. S. H. Bennett (Rotherham), John Braim (Pickering), 



E. P. P. Butterfield (Wilsden), John Grassham (Leeds), Percy Lund 



(Bradford), H. M. Platnauer, B.Sc, A.R.S.M. (York), John Stears 



(Hull), M. H. Stiles (Doncaster), Edward Tindall (Knapton Hall), 



and William Whitwell (London), all of them gentlemen to whom 



the Union has been indebted from time to time— being chosen. 



The Annual Report was then read, as follows: — 



26th ANNUAL REPORT. —The ^'orkshire Naturalists' Union has now existed 

 lov a (quarter of a century, and it is matter for congratulation that the success which 

 has marked its operations during the past decade still continues unabated, and 

 that the Union — the oldest of its kind in the kingdom — is at the present time in a 

 flourishing and vigorous condition. Much of this success is attributable to the 

 fact that its executive and its officers have never failed to bear in mind that the 



May 1887. 



