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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION. 
The Yorkshire Micro-Zoology and Micro-Botany Committee.— 
The Committee for 1909 is as follows : — 
Chairman — M. H. Stiles, 2 Frenchgate, Doncaster. 
Convener — H. Moore, Rotherham. 
Representative on Executive — H. Moore, Rotherham. 
Representative on Committee of Suggestions — W. West, Brad- 
ford. 
Other Members — J. N. Coombe, Sheffield, Prof. A. Denny. 
Sheffield, F. W. Mills. Huddersfield, and T. Howard, 
Bradford. 
Soppitt Memorial Library.— Twenty-seven volumes and 
])apers have been circulated during the year, but no additions 
have been made. The original intention to keep a set of the 
Union's publications in the library has, unfortunately, not yet 
been accomplished, but arrangements have been made for this to 
be done. 
British Association. — Mr. Sheppard was appointed delegate 
to represent the Union at the Conference of delegates from the 
corresponding societies held in connection with the meeting of 
the British Association at Dublin in September. The President 
of the Conference, Professor H. A. Miers, delivered an address 
entitled, " The Educational Opportunities of Local Scientific 
Societies," in which he paid a special tribute to the excellence of 
the suggestions made in Mr. G. W. Lamplugh's Presidential 
Address to the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union " On the Necessity 
of the Amateur Spirit in Scientific Work," which appeared in 
" The Naturalist " for 1906. Other subjects discussed were — 
" Detailed Natural History Surveys of Restricted Areas," an 
important work, suitable for local societies, introduced by Pro- 
fessor G. H. Carpenter, Dublin ; " The Advisableness of Re- 
Stocking Haunts whence Fauna and Flora have disappeared," 
by H. Davey, Esq., Brighton ; and " Permanent Records of 
Natural History or other Observations, by means of the Card 
Catalogue System," by F. A. Bellamy, Esq., Oxford. 
The " Naturalist "—Mr. R. Fortune, F.Z.S., has been added 
to the list of Referees. 
As the list of papers g-iven above shows, this journal has 
been the medium of pablishing- a number of papers and notes 
directly resulting- from the Union's work, and the Editors are to 
be cong-ratulated on the maintenance of the high standard to 
which it has for many years attained. The journal is the recognised 
medium for publication of matter relating to the eleven most 
