The Presidential Address 
will be delivered by Mr. J. W. Taylor. Leeds; subject :— " DOMINANCY 
AND PHYLOGENY IN NATURE as affecting distribution" (with 
lantern illustrations). 
During the delivery of the Address, the Chair will be occupied by 
His Worship the Mayor of Hull, Alderman J. Brown. 
Conversazione. 
After the delivery of the Presidential Address, a Conversazione (under the 
auspices of the Hull Scientific Club and Hull Geological Society) v/ill be 
held in the Museum, by kind permission of the Hull Museums Committee, 
to which all Members and Associates of the Union are cordially invited. 
Refreshments will be kindly provided by the Chairman of the Museums 
Committee (His Worship the Mayor) and Mrs. Brown. 
Exhibition of Specimens. 
A number of objects of interest will be on view, including collections of 
East Riding Plants, Insects, Shells, etc., specimens of " Moorlog " from 
the Dogger Bank, old types of Microscopes, and the Dobree collection of 
European Noctuae, in addition to an exhibition of Microscopic Slides by 
Members of the Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' Club. 
There will also be an exhibition of the publications of the Yorkshire 
Naturalists' Union, etc. 
Associates intending to be present should apply to the Museum, Hull, for 
invitation cards. Acceptance should be sent not later than Thursday, 
December I'ith. 
The Municipal Museums, Hull. 
Since the last meeting of the Union at Hull in 1902, two further Museums 
have been opened namely — The Wilberforce Museum in High Street, and 
the Museum of Fisheries and Shipping in the Pickering Park, Hessle Road. 
The Museum of Natual History, 
Applied Art and Antiquities, situated in Albion Street, contains the 
collections formerly in the Museum of the Literary and Philosophical 
Society, which dates back to 1823. In the Winter of 1831 the specimens 
were removed to the Assembly Rooms, in Jarratt Street. In June, 1855, 
they were removed to the newly built Royal Institution. Eventually the 
society presented the collection to the town, and on June 2nd, 1902, the 
Hull Municipal Museum was opened to the public. Since that time the 
Museum accommodation has been increased by the addition of three 
galleries. In this Museum are housed the Natural History collections, 
prehistoric and mediaeval antiquities, ethnographical series, and objects 
illustrative of Applied Art. Special mention may be made of the Norman 
and Philip collections of Diatoms, Johnson Swales' collection of Eggs, 
the Boynton, Fortune and Pease collections of Birds, collection of East 
Yorkshire Mammals, Robson collection of English China, Stevenson 
collection of Beverley antiquities, Keyworth collection of casts of mediaeval 
architecture, the prehistoric boat from Brigg, and the type specimen of 
Sibbald's Rorqual [Balanoptera Sihhaldii). 
Wilberforce House, High Street. 
The interesting Elizabethan Mansion in High Street, built by the Lister 
Family, was opened as a public Museum in August, 1906. In 1639 Charles 
I. was entertained here, and there is no doubt that Andrew Marvell was very 
familiar with the building. The house is dedicated to William Wilberforce, 
who was born here on the 24th of August, 1759, and was destioed to do so 
much for the abolition of slavery. In addition to an extensive collection of 
"Wilberforce relics, including his library, etc., the exhibits include slavery 
relics, mediaeval pottery, Hull coins and tokens, and a fine collection of 
Hull views and plans dating from the time of Henry VIII. 
