FORTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT, FOR I905. 
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**Mr. W. D. Roebuck's Presidential Address for 1904, 
entitled * The salient features connected with the History of the 
Union,' was issued to the members, as a separate pamphlet, in 
January last. The address has been issued absolutely without 
cost to the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union ; this has been borne 
equally by Messrs. Denison Roebuck and John Farrah. 
" ' Fungus Flora.' — The unremitting- labours of Mr. C. 
Crossland and his colleagues, Mr. G. Massee and others, during 
the past summer, resulted in the completion in September of the 
second, and final part of the ' Fungus Flora of Yorkshire.' This 
contained no fewer than 350 pages, and was distributed free to 
each member of the Union. Through the nelp of the Mycological 
Committee and its friends, as well as of the publishers (Messrs. A. 
Brown & Sons, Ltd.), this was issued without any cost whatever 
(beyond postage) to the Union's funds. 
The Fungus Flora of our county is another completed 
memoir, and it is to be hoped that all the members will do their 
best to aid the work by seeing it purchased for local libraries, &c. 
(Cloth To/6 net). 
'Baker's North Yorkshire.' — As a result of the decision 
of your Executive a year ago, Messrs. J. G. Baker and M. B. 
Slater (who has prepared the section devoted to the Mosses) have 
been hard at work completing this valuable Memoir. An Index 
to the flowering plants and ferns, and a Geographical Index, have 
been printed off, as well as 220 pages of the Mosses and Hepatics. 
There is every probability of the completing part of this work 
being printed off early in 1906, and distributed to the members. 
At the same time the complete work will be put on the market, 
the sale from which will, it is hoped, pay for the printing of the 
final part, as well as put money into the coffers of the Union. 
Thus still another of the Union's long-contemplated monographs 
will be an accomplished fact. 
' Birds of Yorkshire.' — The publication of this work has 
occupied the serious attention of your Executive and Officers 
during the past year. It was found that on the basis of the lowest 
tender the work was just twice the size that could be issued by the 
number of subscribers at a guinea (250). From its past experience 
your Executive was determined that on no account whatever 
should any publication be launched which might result in the Union 
being in financial straits. Fortunately, the Union's publishers 
came forward with an offer to take over the responsibility of the 
work, issue a two-volume edition to each subscriber, and pay the 
Union the sum of £^0 for the copyright. After carefully con- 
sidering the matter, and ascertaining whether better terms could 
be obtained elsewhere, the Executive gratefully accepted Messrs. 
Brown's offer. 
