YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION. 
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FORTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT, FOR 1905. ( OCT 11 19^ 
Your Executive Committee has pleasure in submitting- the 
following report on the year's work of the Union, and of its 
Committees and Sections. 
The Forty-tliird Annual Meetings w^as held at Leeds 
on Saturday, December 17th, in the Philosophical and Literary 
Society's rooms. Two excursions preceded the business meeting-; 
one consisting of Geologists, under the leadership of Mr. E. 
Hawkesworth ; the other under the leadership of Messrs. S. 
Margerison and A. White, visited Roundhay Park and the 
greenhouses. 
At the General Meeting, under the chairmanship of Mr. H. 
C. Marsh, Mr. A. H. Pawson delivered his Presidential Address 
entitled "Weeds," which was printed in the "Naturalist" for 
Jariuary last.* 
After the Address, a Conversazione was held in the Museum 
and adjoining rooms, several special exhibits having- been 
arranged, and refreshments kindly provided by the various 
Leeds Societies. 
The Ordinary Field Meetings during the year have 
been five in number, and were held as under — detailed reports 
of which, prepared by the Hon. Secretary, appeared in the 
" Naturalist " in the issues immediately following- the meeting-s. 
hi addition the usual Fungus Foray was held, and duly reported 
upon by Mr. Crossland : — 
1905. May 6th (Saturday)— Ripon. 
June 10th to 1 2th (Whit Week-end) — Askrig-g-. 
July 8th to loth (Week-end)— Loftus. 
August 5th to 7th (Aug-ust Bank Holiday Week-end) — Pocklington. 
September 9th (Saturday) — Barnsley. 
September 23rd to 28 (Fungus Foray) — Maltby and Roche Abbey. 
Ripon. — At this the first excursion for the year there was 
a large attendance. The members met at the Town Hall, where 
the Town Clerk shewed some of Ripon's ancient records, and 
also the natural history collections stored there pending- a more 
suitable home for them being found. The banks of the Skeli 
Presented at Bradford, January 27tliy 1906. 
U B R A 
* The same issue contains a more detailed account of this Annual Meeting. 
