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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS AT DONCASTER. 



The forty-seventh Annual Meeting of the Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union was held at Doncaster, on December loth. Partly on 

 account of the wretched weather which prevailed, and no doubt 

 partly on account of the meeting being held on a Thursday, 

 the attendance was not what has been experienced in recent 

 years ; nevertheless, there was a goodly number present, and 

 the Doncaster Scientific Society did its best to look after the 

 interests of the visitors. The meetings were held in an excellent 

 suite of rooms in the Mansion House, kindly lent by the Don- 

 caster Corporation. 



In the m-orning an excursion was held to Cusworth ; where, 

 nothing daunted by the elements, an enthusiastic if sm.all 

 party had a very profitable outing, and many interesting fungi 

 and other specimens were shewn at the Conversazione as a result. 



The various sections of the Union had representative meet- 

 ings in the afternoon, at which the reports were adopted and 

 officers for 1909 were elected. At the meeting of the General 

 Committee, the Executive's Report on the year's working was 

 presented, and, together with the financial statem.ent, proved 

 very satisfactory. It was shewn that in each of the Union's 

 Sections and Committees, work of a valuable character had been 

 carried out, thus making the Report a useful record of natural 

 history observations in the county during the year. The Report 

 was, perhaps, the most complete and m.ost satisfactory that 

 has ever been issued in the nearly half a century of the Union's 

 existence. 



The Excursions for 1909 were arranged as under : — 

 York, S.E., Market Weighton, Saturday, May 8th. 



Mid-W., Bowland, Whit week-end, May 31st ta 



June 2nd. 

 N.E., Runswick, Saturday. July 3rd. 

 N.W., Sedbergh, x\ugust Bank Holiday week-end, 



2nd to 4th. 

 S.W., Cawthorne, Saturday, August 21st. 

 The Annual Fungus Foray will be held at Castle Howard^ 

 September i8th to 23rd. 



The Annual Meeting for 1909 will be held at Scarborough, 

 in December, and the members of the Scarborough Field Natur- 

 alists' Society have kindly invited the Union to be their guests. 



The officers elected for 1909 were : — President, Mr. W. H. 

 St. Quintin, J. P., M.B.O.U., RiUington ; Treasurer, Mr. H. 



Naturalist. 



