YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION. 
the policy oCconfining each Union Excursion to a strictly limited 
and well-defined area as far as possible, as well as selecting" 
districts which have received but little attention. 
An important event of the year has been the publication of the 
first volume of the Victoria History of Yorkshire," the volume 
devoted to the physical features and natural history of the county. 
Two of the papers are within the scope of this section of the Union. 
The chapter on Marine Zoology, by Mr. John Oliver Borley, is 
excellently well done, and includes well-drawn up lists of Protozoa, 
Porifera, Coelentera, Vermes, Polyzoa, Marine Mollusca, Echino- 
derma, and Tunicata, preceded by half-a-dozen pages of intro- 
ductory matter of great interest. 
We are not so fortunate as regards the Land and Fresh- 
water MoDusca, the account of which does not adequately 
represent our knowledge of the group, and it is a matter of 
regret that this account has not been entrusted to some con- 
chologist familiar with the molluscan fauna of our well-worked 
county. 
The Officers have been elected for 1908 as follows : — 
President— W. H. Hutton, Leeds. 
Secretaries — ^J. E. Crovvther, EUand ; W. Denison Roebuck, 
Leeds. 
Representative on Executive — ^J. E. Crovvther, Elland. 
Representative on Committee of Suggestions — John W. Taylor, 
Leeds. 
Botanical Section {Phanerogams). — Mr. J. F. Robinso 
writes : — Again it may be recorded that, so far the phanerogami 
and higher-cryptogamic work is concerned, there has been n 
diminution of effort and interest during the past year. Ever 
excursion planned and carried out by the officers of the Unio 
has had its contingent of botanists, who evidently have los. 
no opportunity of observation of the flora of the various widely 
separated districts visited ; and, if not many new discoveries are t 
note, yet many interesting, old records have been confirmed 
some new stations added ; and, generally, the views of plan 
life — distribution, chemistry, etc. — broadened {vide Excursion Re 
ports in " The Naturalist "). Confirmation of the above statemen 
may be had in the appearance of several articles, other tha 
the reports, which have also appeared in " The Naturalist " 
and we are warranted in saying that " the ancient spirit is no 
dead," nor indeed are there any signs of it dying. 
Notwithstanding the lateness of the season and the early dat 
of the Whitsuntide excursion to Robin Hood's Bay, no fewer tha 
130 species of flowering species were noted in the sheltered dale 
