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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS* UNION AT DEWSBURY. 



The Excursion programme for 1887 was then resolved upon, as 

 follows : — 



Saltburn ; Whit -Monday, 30th May. 



Thirkleby Park, for Gormire Lake (by invitation of the new President) ; 



July (date to be afterwards arranged). 

 Sedbergh ; Bank Ploliday Monday, ist August. 

 Welton Vale ; Saturday, 27th August. 

 Fungus Foray ; at Leeds, in September. 



Proceeding to the election of officers for 1887, it was first resolved 

 to create the office of Hon. Librarian, with an ex-officio seat on the 

 Executive. It was then announced that Sir R. Payne-Gallwey, Bart., 

 M.B.O.U., etc., had accepted the offer of the presidency which had 

 been made to him. The two retiring Hon. Secretaries (Messrs. 

 W. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S., and W. Eagle Clarke, F.L.S., both of 

 Leeds), were re-elected ; and Messrs. Percy H. Grimshaw (Burley-in- 

 Wharfedale) and W. Cecil Scott (Leeds) were chosen as Hon. Assistant 

 Secretaries ; and Mr. Charles Brownridge, xAssoc.M.Inst.C.E., F.G.S., 

 as Hon. Librarian. The Rev. W. Fowler, M.A. (Liversedge), and 

 Messrs. J. W. Davis, F.S.A. (Halifax), G. C. Dennis (York), John 

 Emmet, F.L.S. (Boston Spa), C. P. Hobkirk, F.L.S. (Dewsbury), 

 B. Holgate, F.G.S. (Leeds), H. T. Soppitt (Bradford), and J. J. Stead 

 (Heckmondwike), retiring members of the Executive, were re-elected, 

 and Messrs. S. A. Adamson, F.G.S. (Leeds), and W. Cash, F.G.S. 

 (Halifax), were chosen for the two remaining seats on the Executive. 

 Messrs. J. E. Bedford and C. D. Hardcastle were chosen Auditors. 



It was then resolved to appoint a Yorkshire Boulder Committee, 

 to co-operate with and assist the Boulder Committee of the British 

 Association, with Prof A. H. Green, M.A., F.R.S. (Leeds), as 

 Chairman, and Mr. S. A. Adamson, F.G.S. (Leeds), as Secretary. . 



It was also resolved to appoint a Committee to promote investi- 

 gations into the Marine Zoology of the Yorkshire coast, with Dr. 

 H. C. Sorby, F.R.S. (Sheffield), as Chairman, and Mr. W. Eagle 

 Clarke, F.L.S. (Leeds), as Secretary. 



A resolution was then proposed by Mr. J. W. Addyman, B.A. 

 (Leeds), requesting the Executive to consider the constitution of the 

 <jeneral Committee, with a view of securing the due representation 

 of all classes of members of the Union thereon. This was accepted 

 on behalf of the Executive and voted. 



The General Committee then adjourned. The sections thereupon 

 met and elected their officers as follows : — 



Vertebrate Zoology. — Rev. E. Ponsonby Knubley, M.A., M. B. O. U., 



Staveley Rectory, president; Mr. James Backhouse, junr., M.B.O.U., 

 York, secretary (re-elected). 

 Conchology. — Rev. W. C. Hey, M.A., York, president ; Messrs. J. D. Butterell, 

 Beverley, and John Pommel, F.L.S., Boston Spa, secretaries (all re-elected). 



Naturalist, 



