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VORKSHIKK NATL KALISTS' UNION. 
The tbllo\viii<4- were elected for 1908 : — 
President— W. G. Smith, Ph.D., Leeds. 
Secretaries — H. H. Corbett, Doncaster ; J. F. Robinson, Hull. 
Representative on Executive — P. Fox Lee. 
Representative on Committee of Suggestions — S. Margerison. 
GeolOg'ical Section. — Mr. E. Hawkesworth writes The 
members of this section have been strongly in evidence at the 
excursions, in some cases forming a good half of those present. 
Much useful work was done, the fact of a definite object being 
arranged for each meeting adding much to its value. There was 
a splendid muster at Robin Hood's Bay, and during the week- 
end the coast was worked from Hawsker Bottoms to Blea Wyke, 
special attention being paid to the Peak faults and the problems 
attaching to the Dogger. The prospects of good fossils in plenty 
attracted a great number of geologists to South Cave, and as an 
outcome of this meeting some particular attention is likely to 
be paid, in the near future, to the puzzling drift deposits of 
this district. At the Thorne meeting valuable observations of 
the gravel and peat deposits were made. The object of the 
Arncliffe fixture was, of course, the zoning, according to corals 
and brachiopods, ot the Lower Carboniferous Rocks so well exposed 
in that area. The Section was very strongly represented at 
Horton-in-Ribblesdrile, the main object of the meeting being the 
examination of the fine exposures of pre-Carboniferous Rocks on 
the west side of Ribblesdale ; but the overlying Carboniferous 
Limestone was not neglected, and the second day was spent in 
tracing the zones on the westerly slopes of Penyghent. Detailed 
accounts of the work done at these meetings have appeared in the 
Naturalist." 
The following were elected for 1908 : — 
President — Cosmo Johns, Sheffield. 
Secretaries — A. J. Stather, Hull ; E. Hawkesworth, Leeds. 
Representative on Executix e — Godfrey Bingley. 
Representative on Committee of Suggestions — Prof. Kendall. 
COMMITTEES. 
The Yorkshire Micro-Zoology and Micro-Botany 
Committee. —Mr. R. H. Philip writes that on the occasions 
on which he was present there was nothing unusual to report 
The following were elected for 1908 : — 
Chairman — M. H. Stiles, Doncaster. 
Convener— R. H. Philip, Hull. 
Representative on Executive — H. Moore, Rotherham. 
Representative on Committee of Suggestions — W. West, 
Bradford. 
