YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION: 
BOTANICAL SECTION. 
Annual Meeting in the Leeds University, October 7th, 3-30 p.m. 
Business. — Discussion of Reports and Suggestions for the election of 
Officers and Committees. After tea, papers will be read. Prof. Priestley will 
show some of his work in connection with Peat plants, and Dr. Pearsall will 
explain Salt ratios (see The Naturalist, September). Mr. W. H. Burrell 
has a note on the V. C. boundaries. Other papers will be welcome. 
CHRIS. A. CHEETHAM. 
GEOLOGICAL SECTION. 
President : Prof. A. GILLIGAN. 
The Annual Meeting of the Section will be held in the Museum, Belle Vue, 
Halifax, on Saturday, October 14th, at 7 p.m. Members and Associates are 
invited to bring notes, specimens, etc., and to take part in the discussions. 
A Field Excursion will be arranged for the afternoon. Meet at the Post 
Office at 2 p.m. If the weather be unfavourable the geological collection at 
Belle Vue will be examined. 
JOHN HOLMES {Hon. Sec.), 
Crosshills, nr. Keighley. 
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. 
President : G. T. PORRITT, F.L.S., F.E.S. 
Two Meetings will be held in the Library of the Y.M.C.A., Albion Place, 
Leeds, on Saturday, October 28th, 1922, at 3-15 p.m., to consider and pass 
the Sectional Reports, and to elect Officers for 1923 ; and at 6 p.m., at which 
entomological topics will be discussed. Exhibits of all orders of insects are 
requested. Members and Associates of the Union are cordially invited. Notes 
and records made during the session on entomological subjects in the county 
are solicited, and these should be in the Secretaries’ hands by October 1st, 
for inclusion in the Annual Report of the Union. 
Secretaries : — Lepidoptera, B. Morley, Skelmanthorpe ; Hymen optera, 
Rosse Butterfield, Keighley; Diptera, C. A. Cheetham, Wortley, Leeds; 
Coleoptera and Hemiptera, W. J. Fordham, Newcastle; Neuroptera and 
Trichoptera, G. T. Porritt, Huddersfield ; Galls, W. Falconer, Slaithwaite. 
B. MORLEY {Sectional Secretary) , Skelmanthorpe. 
VERTEBRATE SECTION. 
President of the Section : S. H. SMITH, York. 
Two Meetings will be held in the Library of the Leeds Philosophical Society, 
Park Row, Leeds, at 3-15 p.m. and 6-30 p.m. respectively, on Saturday, October 
28th, 1922. 
Business at the Afternoon Meeting. — (as) To consider and pass Sectional 
Reports for 1922, and to elect Officers for 1923 ; {b) The General and Financial 
Reports of the Yorkshire Wild Birds and Eggs Protection Acts Committee for 
1922, and to elect Officers and Committee for 1923 ■ {c) The Report of the 
Yorkshire Mammals, Amphibians, Reptiles and Fishes Committee for 1922, 
and to elect this Committee for 1923. 
The following Papers will be given : — ' The Changing Status of the Tern 
Colonies in the Fame Islands,’ H. B. Booth, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. ; ‘ Field Notes,’ 
W. H. Parkin. 
At the Evening Meeting the following Papers will be given, with lantern 
slides : — Early Man,’ G. F. Proctor ; ‘ Notes on Bird Life,’ T. M. Fowler. 
Any Member or Associate of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union is invited to 
attend, and bring notes, specimens, lantern slides, etc. Will Officials of 
Affiliated Societies kindly notify their members ? 
E. WILFRED TAYLOR {Hon. Sec.), 
10 Telford Terrace, York. 
