Il6 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION ANNUAL REPORT. 



Natural History Society, seven strong societies — is evidence that the 

 active study of natural science in Yorkshire — partly due to the 

 stimulus given by the periodical visits of this Union to the various 

 parts of Yorkshire — is steadily on the increase. 



The statistics which the secretaries of the various societies are 

 obliging enough to furnish, as in previous years, show that the 

 number of Associates (that is, of the aggregate membership of the 

 affiliated societies) is now 2,109, ^vhich being added to the direct 

 membership makes a sum total of nearly 2,500 members and 

 associates. 



The Membership still continues to be a source of anxiety to 

 your Executive Council, inasmuch as it remains stationary at about 

 375, in spite of the very strong claims which the Union— as the 

 central and county Society— has upon the support of all Yorkshire 

 naturalists. 



The Financial Position of the Union continues to be in a 

 sound and healthy condition. 



The Local Treasurers continue to be a much-valued help to 

 your Secretaries and Executive, and are of much service to the 

 members who reside in their respective districts. 



The Publications of the Union have been as heretofore, with 

 the addition of the long-expected and recently-issued Flora of West 

 Yorkshire. 



The Transactions. — Parts 10 and 11 are now ready, and will 

 be distributed in course of a few weeks. The former part contains 

 papers on Yorkshire Botany, and a continuation of the Rev. W. C. 

 Hey's List of Yorkshire Beetles. The latter part is entirely devoted 

 to the first instalment of Mr. Baker's North Yorkshire, illustrated by 

 a remarkably clear and distinct geological map of the North Riding. 



The two parts which will succeed those first mentioned are 

 intended to be mainly devoted to continuing this valuable work, 

 which the Union is fortunate in having had placed at its disposal by 

 its distinguished author. The geology, which forms the instalment 

 about to be issued, has been carefully revised to date by Mr. 

 J. Edmund Clark, of York, and the map which accompanies it, is 

 an exceptionally successful and clear one. The chapters on lithology 

 and climatology, which the author has himself revised, are now 

 being printed, and they will be followed by the Flora proper. This 

 is also brought down to date, and includes the observations of later 

 investigators. The chapter on mosses has been confided to Mr. 

 Matthew B. Slater, of Malton, than whom no one is more competent 

 to deal with the subject. Mr. Slater will also add, what was not in 

 the original edition, a list of the North Riding hepatics. 



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