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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR igiO. 
lecture being given jointly to our Society and to the Photo¬ 
graphic Section of the Philosophical Society, Dr. Anderson 
having been elected President of the Photographic Section, 
as well as President of the Naturalists’ Society. This lecture 
was followed by a paper by Mr. Geo. Machin upon “ Some 
Insects of the Hambleton Hills,” and at the same meeting 
exhibits of Lepidoptera were explained by Mr. Harry Dobson 
and Conchological specimens by Mr. Harry Sowden. Mr. 
Oxley Grabham gave us a splendidly illustrated lecture on 
“ Wild Sports of Yorkshire.” Two carefully prepared ten- 
minute papers were those of Mr. Wm. Bellerby and Dr. A. H. 
Burtt, respectively entitled “ Fungi ” and “ Notes on the 
growth of certain Conifers.” Mr. A. H. Brierley filled in an 
evening with a first-rate paper on “ The Great-Crested Grebe 
on Yorkshire Lakes,” a specimen of the bird being'exhibited 
by Mr. S. H. Smith, eggs of various grebes by Mr. V. J. F. 
Zimmerman, and a case of eggs of hawks and herons by Mr. 
G. A. Howard. A lantern lecture was given by Mr. Sydney 
H. Smith, entitled “ Peasant Life and Sport in Galway.” The 
botanical section of the Society is very strong, and not the 
least able of its workers is Mr. J. H. Evers, whose lecturette 
entitled “ A Corner of Strensall Common,” amply proved the 
lecturer’s powers of close observation. We are supposed to 
restrict our field notes to a radius of twenty miles around 
York, but none of the audience regretted our stretching a 
point to have the opportunity of hearing a description of 
“ Muskoka, in Canada,” by Miss Winifred Bishop, a keen 
student of Natural History, who had many interesting things 
to tell us pertaining to that beautiful country. 
Mr. C. F. Procter gave us a splendid lantern lecture entitled 
“ Wildfowling on the Humber Estuary,” in which he described 
punt-gunning, and shore-shooting from screens and banks, 
together with many other methods adopted by wildfowlers to 
secure their quarry. The Botanical Section had another 
enjoyable evening when Mr. H. J. Wilkinson described “ An 
Old Herbal ”—a resume of an ancient botanical work by 
Henry Lyte, dated 1578. “Spices and Condiments ” was a 
subject dealt with in a most attractive manner by Dr. C. K. 
Hitchcock ; and the last of the season’s lectures was given by 
