REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR 19I2.. 
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During the past year we have lost the services of Mr. Robert 
Dutton, a Vice-President and one of the founders of this 
Society. Mr. Dutton was well-known to Yorkshire Naturalists, 
and his death is a great loss to this Society. 
At the Annual Meeting the Secretary read a letter from Mr. 
H. J. Wilkinson (who had been approached to become President) 
in which that gentleman returned thanks for the great kindness 
which had been meted out to him during his 40 years’ member¬ 
ship as Hon. Secretary, Treasurer, Vice-President, and Presi¬ 
dent twice in 1901 and 1909, and he must ask them to allow 
him to retire from the position of Vice-President, as on account 
of private affairs he could not accept office again ; the resigna¬ 
tion was accepted with great regret. 
Mr. Herbert Stansfield submitted the Balance Sheet, which 
showed that the total income amounted to £50 2s. 6d. ; after 
paying all expenses there was a balance in the Bank of 
£33 2s. gd. f and cash in hand £3 11s. od. 
The following Officers were elected for the ensuing year 
President, Mr. William Ingham ; Vice-Presidents, Mr. Samuel 
Walker, Mr. S. H. Smith, Councillor A. Wilkinson, Mr. Chas. 
Proctor ; Committee, Dr. Gayner, Mr. J. H. Evers, Mr. F. W. 
Lockwood, Mr. Geo. Machin, Mr. W. Bellerby, Mr. E. W. 
Taylor; Hon. Secretary, Mr. V. G. F. Zimmermann ; Assistant 
Secretary, Mr. H. E. Jackson ; Hon. Treasurer, Mr. H. Stans- 
field ; Librarian, Mr. Blackburn ; Delegates to the Yorkshire 
Naturalists' 1 Union, Mr. Zimmermann and Mr. Proctor. 
Photographic Section.— The number of members of the 
Section for some time past has remained stationary, namely 
about 30. During the latter part of the session ending Sept. 
31st, 1912, there has been an increase of ten new members, 
bringing the total up to 40. We had hoped at the end of the 
session for a membership of 50, with the advantage now given. 
The early part of the session was opened with Mr. Brogden’s 
lecture, “The Use of a Small Camera”; Wilfred Taylor, 
“Wild Life on a Yorkshire Moor”; T. W. Pottage, “From 
Cambridge to Cornwall, by road and rail.” On July 17th, an 
Exhibition of Photography was held in the Hall of the Museum 
to inaugurate the first series of lectures in the New Lecture 
