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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION AT MALTON. 



(chairman); W. Cash, F.G.S., HaUfax (hon. secretary): S. A. 

 Adamson, F.G.S., HaUfax ; Thos. Hick, B.A., B. Sc., Manchester : 

 B. Holgate, F.G.S., Leeds; Robert Kidston, F.G.S.: Prof. L. C. 

 Miall, Leeds; James Spencer, Hahfax: John Stubbins, F.G.S., 

 Leeds: and William AVest, F.L.S., Bradford. 



It being in the power of the General Committee to add to its 

 own number ten Permanent Members annuahy, this power was used, 

 Messrs. F. Boyes, Beverley ; James Carter, ^Lasham : William 

 Foggitt, Thirsk • Alfred Harker. M.A.. F.G.S., Hull and Cambridge 

 L'niversity ; Wm. Home, F.G.S., Leyburn ; Baker Hudson, ^LC.S., 

 Coatham : J. C. I"Anson, F.G.S., Saltburn-by-the-Sea : Rev. Wm. 

 Jessop, F.A.S., Rawdon ; T. H. Xelson, }vLB.O.L'., Redcar: and 

 John Stubbins, F.G.S., F.R,M.S., Leeds. 



The unanimous election of Messrs. Robert Barnes, Saltburn-by- 

 the-Sea : Geo. S. Gibb, LL.B.. York : the Hon. H. W. Fitzwilliam, 

 ^vLP., Malton: Zechariah Waite, Whitby : A.W.Walker, Mahon : 

 and William Young, ^LD., Zvlalton, as members of the Union, 

 followed, all having been duly proposed in writing. 



The next business was the selecdon of the place of the next 

 Annual ^Meeting, for which invitations were submitted from Shemeld 

 and Halifax — the former town being eventually selected — and the 

 date fixed for Friday, i6th of November next. This concluded the 

 business of the General Committee, which then adjourned. 



The sections then met and elected their officers as follows : — 



B. Vertebrate Zoology. — Rev. E. Ponsonby Knubley, ^I.A., 

 ^I.B.G.L'.j Rector of Staveley. re-elected president, and !Mr. James 

 Backhouse, jun., F.Z.S., ^NLB.O.U.. of York, re-elected secretary, 

 and a second secretary elected in the person of ^Ir. Thomas Bunker, 

 Goole. 



C. Conchology. — Rev. W. C. Hey. M.A., M.C.S., York, 

 re-elected president ; Mr. John Emmet, F.L.S., Boston Spa, re-elected 

 secretary, and Mr. Baker Hudson, IVLCS., Coatham, chosen secretary 

 in place of Mr. Butterell, resigned. 



D. Entomology. — All the officers re-elected, viz.. IMr. X. F. 

 Dobree, Beverley, president, and ^lessrs. G. C. Biennis and Samuel 

 AValker, York, secretaries. 



E. Botany. — All the officers re-elected, viz., Mr. F. Arnold 

 Lees, L.R.C.P., Leeds, president ; ^Ir. P. F. Lee, Dewsbur}-, phanero- 

 gamic secretary, and Mr. B. Slater, Malton. cr}-ptogamic secretar}-. 



F. Geology. — All the officers re-elected, viz., Rev. E. ^laule 

 Cole, ^LA., Wetwang, president, and Mr. S. A. Adamson, F.G.S., 

 Leeds, and ^Ir. S. Chadwick, Malton, secretaries. 



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