REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR igiO. 
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12 thunderstorms and 15 fogs. Snow fell on only 15 days of 
the year, as against 31 for 1909. 
Bright sunshine has been observed for 1229 hours as against 
1145 for 1909. We have thus got back the 2 °/ 0 l° s t I 9 ° 9 - 
Ornithology. —The collections are all in good order, and 
several interesting additions have been made in the way of 
mounted specimens, skins and eggs. 
Zoology. —The Yorkshire Mammal collection is gradually 
increasing, and some interesting varieties have been added. 
Mention may be made of the three American Grey Squirrels 
which have been turned down in the Gardens, and which were 
kindly presented by Mr. W. H. St. Quintin. 
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Field Naturalists’ Section. —Your Council have to 
report that on the whole the Society has enjoyed a prosperous 
year, during which a large amount of routine work has been 
accomplished in all its branches. The session of 1910-n 
opened with a series of field excursions that proved to be very 
useful and instructive to those members who attended them, 
but we feel that the excursions are not supported as much as 
they should be, and the attendance by no means justifies all 
the care and attention that is required to arrange them. The 
first, to Stamford Bridge and Buttercrambe Woods, attracted 
ten members; the second, to Speeton and Bempton Cliffs, was 
attended by nine members and three friends. On the third, to 
Sledmere, we had ten members and two friends; on the fourth, 
to Kirbymoorside, in conjunction with the Yorkshire Naturalists’ 
Union, six members and two friends ; and the fifth and last, 
to Bramham Park, only called together four members and one 
visitor. Results such as these, after all the trouble of arrang¬ 
ing details, are most disappointing, and it is for the general 
body of members to state whether or not the excursions should 
be discontinued in view of such small attendances, and of the 
cost of printing and posting one hundred notices on each 
occasion. 
The Winter Session opened with the Presidential address by 
Dr. Tempest Anderson, M.D., F.G.S., on “ Volcanoes,” the 
