YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION. 
FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT, FOR 1907. 
Presented at Halifax^ Dec. 14th, igoy. 
The Executive Committee of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union 
has pleasure in presenting* the following" report of the work of the 
Union during the past year. 
The Forty-fifth Annual Meeting' was held at York 
on Saturday, December 15th, 1906, the occasion being of peculiar 
interest from the fact that it was the 200th meeting of the Union. 
In the morning the members were conducted round the premises 
of the British Botanical Association at Acomb, under the direction 
of Dr. Burtt. 
At the General Meeting, Mr. W. Eagle Clarke delivered an 
admirable address entitled ''Bird Life in the Antarctic," which 
was illustrated by a beautiful series of lantern slides. Mr. Eagle 
Clarke, having had the ornithological collections acquired by the 
Scottish and Antarctic expeditions submitted to him for examina- 
tion and description, was able to give much interesting information 
at first hand. 
In view of some recent comments in the press, the members 
of the Union unanimously passed a resolution congratulating the 
Hull Corporation on the method of arrangement, etc., of the 
specimens in the Hull Museum. 
After the Address, a Conversazione was held in the Museum 
at York, by the kind permission of the York Philosophical Society. 
The best thanks of the Union are due to the York and District 
Field Naturalists' Society for their local arrangements and enter- 
tainment, and to the York Philosophical Society for allowing the 
members to make use of the Lecture Theatre and the Museum 
The usual Six Field Meeting's have been held during the 
summer, and in most cases have been very fully reported upon 
in the pages of "The Naturalist." These reports have been 
further increased in value by the illustrations which the publishers 
have given. The excursions were held as follows : — 
1907. May 18th to 20th (Whit Week-end)— Robin Hood's Ba}'. 
June 22nd (Saturday) — South Cave. 
July nth (Thursday) — Thorne Waste. 
August 3rd to 5th (August Bank Holiday Week-end) — Arncliffe. 
September 7th (Saturday) — Horton-in-Ribblesdale. 
September 21st to 26th (Fungus Foray) — Grassington, for Grass 
Woods and Bolton Woods. 
