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Oxlev Grabhani . . 



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T. H. Nelson 



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G. T. Porritt 



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\A . Dennison Roebuck 



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W. Wilson . . 



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and in addition there is a small balance ys. 6d. ^ left over 

 from last year. 



Further contributions will be gladly acknowledged, and 

 should be sent to either of the Secretaries of the Committee 

 (R. Fortune, F.Z.S.. Lindisfarne, Harrogate, or T. H. Nelson, 

 M.B.O.U., The Chffe. Redcar), or to the Echtors of this journal. 



The Committee meets again in the Board Room, Leeds 

 Institute, Cookridge Street, Leeds, at 3-30 p.m., on Saturday, 

 April 25th, and invites any interested member of the Yorkshire 

 Naturalists' Union to attend. 







A new monthly Natural History Magazine is promised, the first part to- 

 be ready on April ist ' 



" Answers to Correspondents." — Primavera. — No. We think that 

 what you noticed must have been a crocus. It is too early for the cuckoo. 

 — Punch. 



The Mayor of Hull is endeavouring to arrange for the British Associa- 

 tion to visit Hull in igio. The British Association has only once pre- 

 viously visited Hull, and that was so long ago as 1853. 



A Bill was issued recently which provides that 'any person who shall 

 steal, or shall destroy or damage with intent to steal, any plant, root, fruit, 

 flower or vegetable product, having a market value and growing in anv 

 cultivated or enclosed land, not being a garden, orchard, pleasure ground , 

 or nursery ground, or in any hedge or bank bounding any such land, shall 

 be deemed guilty of an offence under Section 36 of the Larceny Act, 1861, 

 and shall on conviction thereof be dealt with as provided by that section. 

 The effect of this is that any labourers or children or others who go into a 

 field and pluck blackberries, or pick up a mushroom, or gather nettles or 

 dandelions; or wanderers on the Yorkshire and Lake District Moors who 

 pick cranberries in the marshes, will be liable to be punished for theft. 

 The Bill has a special clause exempting from punishment any person who, 

 ' being on a highway, shall pick or take any uncultivated fruit, flower, or 

 plant growing in a hedge or bank by the side of such highway.' The 

 whole question apparently rests on the words ' having a market value,' 

 and presumably it will be for the ' officers of the law ' to decide which 

 ' plant, root, fruit, flower or vegetable product ' has a market value, and 

 which has not. What with wild bird protection ' and one thing and 

 another, a policeman's life is not a happy one.' 



lyo'j March i. 



