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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS AT BROUGH. 



THOMAS SHEPPARD, F.G.S., 

 Curator of the Municipal Museum at Hull; 

 Secretary of the Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' Club, and of the 

 Geological Section of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. 



As so frequently happens on the occasion of the first excursion, 

 of the year, not only in the case of the Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union, but with almost all societies, there was an exceptionally 

 good attendance of members and associates at the opening- 

 excursion of the season at Brough, on Whit-Monday, 27th May 

 1901, there being nearly eighty persons present, about a dozen 

 of whom spent the week-end in the district. The party was 

 augmented by some students from the Yorkshire College, 

 with Mr. P. F. Kendall, F.G.S., the President-elect of the 

 Union, at their head,' who joined the Geological Section. Repre- 

 sentatives from seventeen societies answered the roll-call at the 

 meeting; as might be expected, however, a large proportion of the : 

 persons present were members of either the Hull Scientific and 

 Field Naturalists' Club, or the Hull Geological Society. This 

 is an agreeable contrast with the state of affairs that existed 

 twenty-four years ago, when ' some naturalists from Hull were 

 expected to join the party ' on the occasion of the Union's first 

 visit to Brough. 



What was particularly noticeable and gratifying, not only to 

 the officials of the Union, but especially to the members them- 

 selves, was the splendid manner in which the various sections 

 were represented. There was scarcely a branch of the Union's 

 work but had its proper official at the Brough excursion. This^ 

 is as it should be. On many occasions in the past complaint 

 has been made by the members (and not without cause) that the 

 representatives of the sections have not always been present. 

 Persons holding positions in such societies should at least make 

 a point of attending the excursions. 



The present year, being the twenty-fifth year of the Yorkshire 

 Naturalists' Union's existence under its present title, the same 

 places that were visited a quarter of a century ago are being- 

 revisited, and it is sincerely to be hoped that those members 

 who were fortunate enough to be present at the Brough excur- 

 sion in 1878, and now, will find evidence of some improvement 

 in the previous state of affairs. This year no particularly grand 

 'finds,' and few new records, were made. This is probably to 



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