FORTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT, FOR 1905. 
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The following were elected for 1906: — 
President— L. S. Brady, Sheffield. 
Secretaries — W. Hewett, York; A. Whitaker, Barnsley. 
Representative on Executive — ^W. Hewett. 
Representatives on Committee of Suggestions — G. T. Porritt 
and W. Hewett. 
ConcllOlOg-ical Section.— Mr. T. Castle writes Fairly 
good results have been made at the Union meetings during the 
past year, although the dryness of the excursion season has had 
its influence upon land mollusca. Progress has, however, been 
made, as the various reports in the " Naturalist " show. A brief 
summary of the work is appended. Continued and increasing 
interest in this branch of the Union's work is also manifest. 
Mr. J. E. Crowther recorded six slugs, twenty-two land and 
eight fresh-water species at Ripon on May 6th, including an 
exceptional find of Viivea vogersi^ and the occurrence of some 
species in abundance, notably Aiiadoiita cygnea, in the Skell below 
the lake at Studley, and U7iio pictovum^ Bythinia tentactilata^ and 
Sphaerium covneuni, in the bed of the lake; but the full list of the 
fresh-water species named on the circulars was not reached owing 
to the lack of opportunities on the excursion, a full report of which 
was given in the June issue of the " Naturalist." 
AsKRiGG. — The section was represented on this excursion 
by Mr. T. Castle, who enumerated three slugs, twent)^ land and 
six fresh-water species, but, owing" to several weeks' continued 
drought previous to our arrival at Askrigg, the land mollusca had 
suff"ered considerably. Helix lapicida was especially noticeable 
on the Leyburn Road near Nappa Hall, a limited stretch of old 
wall yielding large numbers; but some disappointment was met 
with at Semmerwater by the scarcity of species, only six being 
recorded, one of the commonest kind elsewhere, viz., Lunnea 
pevegva^ being represented by only one specimen, and several other 
kinds were absent from the streams in other parts of the district. 
LoFTUS. — On account of the unavoidable absence of the 
Secretaries no report was made respecting the excursion, but, 
judging from the Union circular, conchologists present ought to 
have had good results. 
PocKLiNGTON. — The Rev. F. H. Woods reported nine 
species of land and five fresh-water shells in the September issue 
of the " Naturalist" as having been recorded on this excursion, 
including several interesting varieties. 
Barnsley. — On this excursion Mr. J. E. Crowther re- 
ported that conchologically the meeting was not a complete success 
on account of the unsuitability of the ground traversed, although 
