A YEAR'S SCIENTIFIC WORK IN YORKSHIRE : 
BKING 
THE YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION’S 
FIFTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT, 
For 19 13. 
( Presented u/ York ISth December , 1913). 
The Fifty-First Annual Meeting* was held at Hull on 
Saturday, 14th December, 1912. 
At the General Meeting Mr. John \Y. Taylor, of Leeds, delivered 
an address entitled “ Dominancy and Phylogeny in Nature as 
affecting Distribution,” which was well illustrated by a series 
of lantern slides. Afterwards a Conversazione was held at the 
Hull Museum, and the best thanks of the L'nion are due to the 
inviting Societies, the Hull Geological and the Hull Scientific 
Club, for their services in making the local arrangements, which 
contributed so much to the success of the Meeting, and to the 
Museums’ Committee of the Hull Corporation for the use of the 
Museum. A full report of this Meeting appeared in The Naturalist 
for January, 1913. 
The Field Meetings were six in number, full reports of which 
appeared in the pages of The Naturalist, and some had their 
value increased by illustrations. The Excursions were held as 
follows : — 
Yorks., SAY. — Maltby, for Roche Abbey, Easter Saturday, 
22nd March. 
,, NAY. — Kirkby Stephen (Whit Week-end), 10th 
to 12th May. 
,, Mid-West.- — Burnsall, Saturday, 7th June. 
S.E. — Stamford Bridge, Saturday, 5th July. 
X.E. — Great Ayton (August Bank Holiday Week 
end), 2nd to 4th August. 
X.E. — -Mycological Meeting, Sandsend for Mul- 
grave Woods, 20th to 24th September. 
In addition, the Marine Biology Committee held its Annual 
Meeting at Filey from 29th August to 2nd September, and 
"everal other Sections have held successful gatherings during the 
autumn and winter months. 
As in past years. Excursion Programmes have been printed 
and distributed prior to the Field Meetings. 
The various landowners have readily granted the necessary 
permissions to visit their estates, and to them the best thanks of 
the Union arc due, as well as to the Railway Companies for 
granting the usual cheap travelling facilities. 
1914 Jan. 7. 
