IN MEMORIAM — THOMAS LISTER. 



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G. Micro-Zoology and Micro-Botany. — Dr. H. Clifton 

 Sorby, F.R.S., Sheffield, president, and Mr. J. M. Kirk, Doncaster, 

 secretary, both re-elected. 



Afterwards tea was served at the Talbot Hotel, and at 7 p.m. the 

 Annual PubHc Meeting was held in the Theatre of the Malton 

 Institute, when there was a large audience. The chair was taken by 

 the president. Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, Bart., M.B.O.U., who, after 

 the annual report and excursion -programme had been read for the 

 benefit of the members generally, delivered the annual address. 

 He took for his subject, 'Yorkshire Decoys and the Method of 

 Decoying Ducks,' illustrating his remarks by a series of lantern-slides. 

 During the delivery of the address the chair was occupied by the 

 Rev. R. W. Elliott, M.A., one of the vice-presidents of the Malton 

 NaturaHsts' Society. A vote of thanks to the president for his 

 services as such and for his address was cordially voted, on the 

 motion of Mr. John Cordeaux, M.B.O.U., seconded by the Rev. W. 

 C. Hey, in a couple of happily-expressed speeches, and afterwards 

 a similar and well-deserved compliment was paid to the Malton 

 Society for its reception of the Union and to the Rev. R. W. Elhott 

 for presiding, on the motion of the new president, Mr. Wilfrid H. 

 Hudleston, M.A., F.R.S., seconded by the Rev. E. Maule Cole, M.A. 



An excellent and most interesting exhibition, which had been 

 arranged by the members of the Malton Society, was open through- 

 out the afternoon and evening, and engaged the attention of the 

 members and associates during the intervals between the various 

 meetings. The objects shown were of a varied character, and were 

 contributed by numerous local gentlemen and ladies, hardly any 

 branch of natural history, art, or antiquities being unrepresented. 

 In addition to this the splendid little museum of the Malton Society 

 was open to inspection. 



THOMAS LISTER. 

 In the death of Mr. Thomas Lister, of Barnsley, Yorkshire naturalists 

 have lost a veteran and enthusiastic comrade, while the Barnsley 

 Naturalists' Society and the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union have to 

 mourn the passing away of an old office-bearer. 



Thomas Lister was born at the Old Mill Wharf near Barnsley, on 

 the nth February, 1810. A member of the Society of P^iends, he 

 received his education at the Friends' School at Ackworth, afterwards 

 working with his father, who was a gardener and small farmer. In 

 1839 he accepted the postmastership of Barnsley. He remained post- 

 April 1888. 



