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Committee of Suggestions for Research. 



{g) Archseologists could share in the work, by finding- or 

 identifying implements or other remains found in or under the 

 peat. 



(A) Members interested in Meteorology could g-reatly assist 

 by obtaining statistics of rainfall, etc., on the peat. These 

 observations are also urgently required by the Botanical Survey 

 Committee for its work generally.) 



{i) The Botanical Survey Committee is interested in the 

 vegetation which occurs on different forms and different depths 

 of peat. 



(k) The Committees interested in Microscopy could deal with 

 fungi and organisms inhabiting peat. 



It will thus be seen that any naturalist could take part in 

 this investigation, even though it only amounted to contributing 

 specimens of peat from one place. Every Section and Committee 

 of the Union has a share in the work. The Committee of Sug- 

 gestions is the body to bring the observations together, and to 

 promote the necessary investigations. 



Other suggestions for research have been received. At 

 present these are chiefly geological and botanical, but a brief 

 summary may evoke suggestions in other directions. 



II. — Entomologists and botanists might combine in observing 

 the insects which effect the pollination of flowers. Some work 

 of this kind has already been done in Yorkshire. 



III. — The same sections might also combine in an investiga- 

 tion on the distribution of insects in relation to definite types of 

 vegetation. 



IV. — The Committee on Invertebrate Zoology might claim 

 the assistance of botanists in identifying plants used as food, 

 e.g., by snails and slugs. 



V. — Photographers have many opportunities of co-operating 

 with the scientific sections. The British Association have com- 

 mittees for the collection of (a) geological, {b) botanical, [c] 

 anthropological photographs. The Committee on Geological 

 Photographs have already set the example in the Union, and 

 their delegate (Mr. Bingley) on the Committee of Suggestions 

 has lodged a proposal which would make these photographs 

 more widely available than they are at present. The photograph- 

 ing of fungi has also been taken up. In other branches of 

 botany there is also great scope for the use of the camera. 



By means of an organised scheme of registration, photographs 

 of scientific interest could be recorded and made available to 

 members of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. The illustration 



Naturalist, 



