THE YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION’S 
SIXTIETH ANNUAL REPORT 
FOR 1921. 
(Presented at Hull, December 3rd, 1921). 
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The Fifty -Ninth Annual Meeting was held at Bradford on 
Saturday, December 4th, 1920. A full report of this meeting appeared 
in The Naturalist for January, 1921 (pp. 33-47). The Presidential 
Address on ‘ The Rigidity of North-west Yorkshire,’ was delivered by 
Prof. J. E. Marr, D.Sc., F.R.S., and has since appeared in our journal 
(pp. 63-72). 
At the same meeting the resignations of the Joint Secretaries, Dr. 
T. W. Woodhead, M.Sc., and Mr. W. E. L. Wattam, were accepted with 
much regret, and votes of thanks and appreciation for their long services- 
in the cause of the Union were unanimously accorded, to them. 
In the early days of January, the Executive learned with great sorrow 
that the health of the new President, Mr. H. H. Corbett, had not improved, 
and on January 5th, news was received of his death. Interment took 
place at Doncaster on January 8th, the Union being represented by 
Messrs. Bayford, Porritt, .Sheppard, Stiles and Woodhead. An ‘ In 
Memoriam ’ notice appeared in The Naturalist, April, 1921. 
President. — At an Executive Meeting held in the Philosophical 
Hall, Leeds, on January 29th, 1921, Mr. H. B. Booth, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., 
was unanimously elected President of the Union. The Executive has to- 
record its high appreciation of the personal interest taken by Mr. Booth 
in the field and other meetings throughout the year. 
Secretaries. — At the above meeting, Messrs. F. A. Mason, F.R.M.S., 
and W. H. Pearsall, M.Sc., F.L.S., were elected joint Secretaries. The 
Executive takes this opportunity of congratulating Mr. Pearsall upon 
the honour since signalised by the University of Manchester, in conferring 
upon him the degree D.Sc., for his work on the ‘ Vegetation of the English 
Lakes . ' 
Field Meetings have been held as follows : — - 
South Cave (Easter week-end ) . 
Dent (Whit week-end). 
Redcar (June nth to 13th). 
Wentworth (Thursday, July 7th). 
York (Bank Holiday week-end ) . 
Reports of these meetings have appeared in The Naturalist during the 
year. 
Additional Sectional Meetings have been held by the Mycological, 
Marine Biology, Bryology and Galls Committees respectively, as referred 
to in the body of this Report. 
In spite of the difficulties of travel imposed by the Coal Strike in 
the earlier parts of the summer, and the continuance of high railway 
fares, these meetings have been satisfactorily attended. With the better 
service now being maintained by the Railway Companies and the resump- 
tion of the special reduced fares to members of the Union, which it is 
anticipated will be in operation next year, it is hoped that the excursions- 
will in future revert to their pre-War popularity. 
-Clitheroe for Bowland. 
The Excursions for 1922. — - 
Yorks., S.W. Easter (April 15-17)- 
,, W. May 13— Bingley. 
,, N.E. Whitsuntide (June 3-5) — Thornton Dale. 
,, S.E. July — Filey. 
,, N.W. Bank Holiday (Aug. 5-7)— Buckden for Walden and 
Bishopdale ; Fungus Foray, September, Buckden. 
Annual Meeting, December, Scarborough. 
1922 Jan. 1 
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