PREFACE. 



Again it is our privilege to thank our numerous contributors 

 and subscribers for their assistance during- the past year, and 

 for their frequent words of appreciation of our efforts to 

 render the journal popular, readable, and at the same time 

 of real service to Northern Naturalists. We are also grate- 

 ful for the help rendered in the matter of illustrations. These 

 have unquestionably added much to the value of the journal. 



An effort has been made to report the meetings of the 

 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union promptly, as well as to bring 

 before our readers particulars of any important observations 

 or discoveries made, at the earliest possible moment. As in 

 past years also, the journal has been in our readers' hands 

 regularly on the first day of each month. 



One or two branches of Natural History have apparently 

 been neglected during the past twelve months, as compared 

 with previous years, but this is the fault of the contributors, 

 not of the editors. It is hoped that next year there may be 

 a more representative set of papers dealing with the verte- 

 brates of the county. 



The publication of Massee and Crossland's 'Fungus Flora 

 of Yorkshire ' during the past year is an event worthy of 

 record, and it has been arranged to publish supplementary 

 lists of fungi obtained on the forays in the Miscellaneous 

 volume of 'Transactions of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union,' 

 though general accounts of the Forays, as well as particulars 

 of the more important discoveries made, will appear in this 

 journal as heretofore. 



The absence of Mr. Woodhead from England for the 

 greater part of this year has thrown the work in connection 

 with the journal entirely upon the shoulders of his colleague, 

 who is, therefore, solely responsible for any shortcomings 

 there may have been. 



Mr. W. E. L. Wattam has again kindly prepared the Index. 



