FORTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT, FOR I908. 
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The following were elected for 1909 : — 
Chairman— Prof. Garstang, Leeds. 
Convener — Rev. F. H. Woods, B.D., Bainton, Drifheld. 
Representative on Executive — Prof. Garstang. 
Other Members — Rev. W. C. Hey, M.A., West Ayton ; Geo. 
Massee, Kew ; T. H. Nelson, Redcar ; S. Lister 
Petty, Ulverston ; J. Fraser Robinson, Hull ; F. W. 
Fierke, Hull ; W. Denison Roebuck, Leeds ; Arnold 
T. W^atson, Sheffield; J. D. Butterell, Wansford ; 
E, Howarth, Sheffield ; and W. Harrison Hutton, 
Leeds. 
BOTANICAL SECTION. 
Phanerogams. — The Secretaries are unable to make a very 
elaborate report for the past year, although the work (both 
" floristic " and geographical) continues to make progress. Not 
unimportant discoveries have even been made by members 
interested in the flow^ering plants. For example, the Bearberry 
(Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi Spreng) is found to be abundant in a 
south-west Yorkshire Station (fide C. E. Moss, Cambridge), and 
Hypericum montammi at Hessle (leg. C. Waterfall), is new to 
the East Riding, whilst Jiincus acutus, a saltmarsh rush, has 
been discovered at East Coatham, by P. F. Lee, and is, according 
to Dr. F. A. Lees, a " significant extension " in the East Coast 
range of this unusual rush. 
The literary side, too, has had much attention given to it, 
as witness the increasing number of most interesting articles on 
various aspects of the plant question in our increasingly interesting 
organ—" The Naturalist." We do not yet, even in w^ell- worked 
Yorkshire, know absolutely all that is to be learned of many 
departments of botanical study, and long may it be before the 
members and associates of the Union get it into their heads that 
they have anything like approached a stage of finality in this 
respect. 
The following w^ere elected for 1909 : — ■ 
President— T. W. Woodhead, Ph.D. 
Secretaries — H. H. Corbett, 9 Priory Place, Doncaster; J. 
Fraser Robinson, 22 Harley Street, Hull. 
Representative on Executive — E Snelgrove, Sheffild. 
Representative on Committee of Suggestions — S. Margerison. 
Botanical Survey Committee.— The Convener (Dr. W G. 
Smith) reports— The excursions, especially those at Leckby Carr 
and Osmotherley, have yielded good results. The latter week- 
end was attended by several members of the Committee, and 
