FORTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT, FOR I906. 
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has added a large number of mosses, all collected by the late 
Mr. Soppitt. 
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The Committee consists of Messrs. C. Crossland, G. T. 
Porritt, and W. West (Ti*ustees), with Mr. T. W. 
Woodhead as Librarian. 
British. Association. — During the year the meeting of the 
British Association was held at our county capital, the birth-place 
of the Association three-quarters of a century ago, and certainly 
it can be said that no efforts had been spared by the citizens of 
York to make the meeting a success, from a social point of view. 
Unfortunately, however, the numbers attending the meeting were 
by no means satisfactory, and did not reach the number which 
attended at York twenty-five years ago. This was probably 
partly due to the fact that the meeting was held in the first week 
ih August instead of in September. 
iThe scientific work accomplished at the York meeting, so far 
as it affects Yorkshire, was summarised in the September number 
of our journal, the Naturalist," the Secretary of the Union being 
successful in obtaining for publication most of the papers bearing 
upon Yorkshire, either in full or in abstract form. It must be 
gratifying to the Union to find that the only natural history paper 
read at the York meeting, which was voted to be printed in extenso 
in the British Association Report, was that presented by our past- 
President, Mr. Porritt, on the subject of melanism. 
Conference of Delegates at the Britlsh Association. — 
As the appointed delegate from the Yorkshire Naturalists' 
Union, the Hon. Secretary, Mr. Sheppard, attended both meetings 
of 'the Conference of Delegates from corresponding societies 
attending the British Association meeting. At the first, Dr. 
H'.' R. Mill addressed the members on Meteorological Observa- 
tioris by Local Scientific Societies," and complained of the 
inadequacy of the records from the East and North Ridings of 
Yoi'kshire. The second meeting was devoted to a discussion on 
**The Desirability of Promoting County Photographic Surveys," 
which was opened in a paper prepared by Mr. W. Jerome 
Ma'rrison. It was agreed to recommend that a committee be 
k^'pbinted next year to promote photographic survey work in the 
British Islands, the Secretary of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union 
beirig one of the six suggested members of such committee. 
Mr. T. Sheppard was appointed delegate from the Union for 
the 1907 meeting at Leicester. ' . . . . j.c 
The " JTaturaliSt,"— From the Union's point of view the 
arrangement rhade a year ago with Messrs. A. Brown & Sons, 
the Union's publishers, in reference to the Naturalist," has 
