YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION. 
FORTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT, FOR 1906. 
Presented at York^ Dec. r^th^ igo6. 
The Executive Committee of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union 
has pleasure in presenting^ the following" report on the year's work 
of the Union, and of its Committees and Sections. 
The Forty-fourtli Annual Meeting was held at Brad- 
ford on Saturday, January 27th, in the Cartwright Memorial Hall, 
which had been kindly lent by the Bradford Corporation. Two 
excursions preceded the meeting and were well attended. Mr. 
J. E. Wilson conducted the Geologists, and Messrs. W. H. Parkin 
and H. B. Booth looked after the Botanists, etc. ; and in Lister 
Park Mr. E. Naylor described the Botanical Gardens. 
At the General Meeting, Mr. G. W. Lamplugh, F.R.S., 
-delivered his Presidential Address entitled ''A Necessity for the 
Amateur Spirit in Scientific Work." This was published in extenso 
in the Naturalist" for March. 
After the Address, a Conversazione was held in the rooms of 
the Cartwright Hall, in some of which special Natural History 
■exhibits were prepared, and these were allowed to remain for some 
days after the meeting for the benefit of the people of Bradford, 
who much appreciated them. To the two Bradford Scientific 
Societies, and to Messrs. S. Margerison and H. E. Wroot, the 
Union is indebted for the great pains that were taken to ensure 
the meeting being thoroughly successful. 
The Ordinary Field Meeting:s during the year have been 
five in number, detailed reports of which appeared in the 
Naturalist " in due course. In addition there was the annual 
Fungus Foray, which was held at Farnley Tyas, and a special 
■excursion to Goathland, which was arranged at the eleventh hour 
in connection with the British Association Meeting at York. The 
various excursions were held on the dates shown hereunder : — 
1906. May 12th to 14th — Ing-Ieton. 
June 2nd to 4th (Whit Week-end) — Flamborougfh. 
June 30th (Saturday) — Fewston. 
July 12th (Thursday) — Askern. 
August 4th to 6th (August Bank Holiday Week-end) — Goathland. 
August 1 8th to 20th — Guisborough. 
September 22nd to 26th (Fungus Foray) — Farnley Tyas. 
