REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR 1916. 
XI 
(a) The donors and collectors of the specimens. 
( b ) Changes that have taken place in such Yorkshire 
localities as Terrington Carr, Staveley Carr, Leckby 
Carr, and Strensall Common. 
(c) The extinction or introduction of plants in Yorkshire 
from 1760 to 1916. 
I regret to say that many specimens in the Herbaria are 
without date or locality. These are chiefly from the following : 
Sir James E. Smith, Founder of the Linn. Society (1788). 
Sir Thomas Gage, of Suffolk, who collected many plants 
in Yorkshire about the year 1880. 
Stephen Robson, of Darlington, author of “ Robson’s 
British Flora,” which was published at York in 1777, 
and the Rev. Richard Relhan, F.L.S. (1878), author of 
“ Flora Cantab.” 
I hope to obtain information respecting some of these 
specimens, and will then fill in the missing numbers in the 
catalogue. 
Botanical Garden :• Many members and visitors have been 
interested in the garden this year (1916). 
I beg to record my thanks to Mr. John S. Gayner, for his 
kindness in presenting to the Society some very interesting 
plants, which will be found enumerated on page xxxix. Also 
to Mrs. Gayner for her valued services in the arrangement and 
exhibition in the Museum of the flowering plants, mosses, and 
fungi, etc., from York and district ; and to Mr. George Webster 
for his assistance in the Herbarium and Garden. 
Entomology. — There has been nothing added to the Collec¬ 
tions during the past year. The specimens and cabinets remain 
in good order and condition. A few distinguished entomolo¬ 
gists have visited the Museum to inspect the Allis Collection 
of British Lepidoptera, amongst them being a former president 
of the Entomological Society, the Rt. Hon. Lord Walsingham. 
Geology. —The work of this Section has been mainly con¬ 
fined to the overhauling of the exhibits in the cases. Labels 
have faded and become covered with dust through long ex¬ 
posure. The Council engaged Miss Holmes to undertake the 
