The Yorkshire Naturalists' Union is an association of amateur and professional naturalists covering a wide range of aspects of natural history. It is one of United Kingdom's oldest extant wildlife organisations and oldest natural history federation. Its Mycological Committee, founded in 1892, is the oldest permanent organisation dedicated to the study of fungi in Great Britain.[1]
History edit
The Yorkshire Naturalists' Union was founded in 1861 as the West Riding Consolidated Naturalists' Society. Initially a collaboration of five local natural history field clubs, additional clubs and societies from across Yorkshire continued to join. The association renamed itself the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union in 1876.
Activities edit
The Yorkshire Naturalists' Union organises joint field trips, co-operates with the British Association for the Advancement of Science and other county-sized associations, and publishes a journal, The Naturalist.[2] The journal was first published by the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union in August 1878.[3]
Notable members edit
- William Sawney Bisat(1886–1973), geologist
- Frederick Orpen Bower (1855–1948), botanist
- William Norwood Cheesman (1847–1925), mycologist
- Alfred Clarke (1848–1925), mycologist and photographer[citation needed]
- William Eagle Clarke (1853–1938), ornithologist
- William James Clarke (1871–1945), naturalist and folklorist
- Charles Crossland (1844–1916), mycologist and ecologist
- James William Davis (1846–1893), geologist
- John Farrah (1849–1907), botanist and meteorologist
- Percy H. Grimshaw (1869–1939), entomologist and zoogeographer
- Henry Bendelack Hewetson (1850–1899), ornithologist
- William Walsham How (1823–1897), botanist and Bishop of Wakefield
- Edmund William Mason (1890–1975), mycologist
- George Edward Massee (1845–1917), mycologist
- Seth Lister Mosley (1847–1829), ornithologist and museum curator
- James Needham (1849–1913), mycologist and ecologist
- Arthur Anselm Pearson (1874–1954), mycologist
- George Taylor Porritt (1848–1927), entomologist
- Albert Seward (1863–1941), botanist and geologist. Professor of Botany, Cambridge University from 1906 to 1936
- Henry Thomas Soppitt (1858–1899), mycologist
- James Varley (1817–1883), ornithologist and entomologist[citation needed]
- Harold Wager (1862–1929), mycologist
- Roy Watling (b. 1938), mycologist
- Thomas William Woodhead (1863–1940), plant ecologist
References edit
- ^ Smith, Nathan (2021). "Of stumps and stipes: comparisons between the cultures and identities of Yorkshire cricket and mycology at the turn of the twentieth century". Notes and Records. 77: 5–18. doi:10.1098/rsnr.2021.0036. S2CID 237435704. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
- ^ Alberti, Samuel J. M. M. (2001). "Amateurs and Professionals in One County: Biology and Natural History in Late Victorian Yorkshire". Journal of the History of Biology. 34: 115–147. doi:10.1023/A:1010373912743. S2CID 85792645.
- ^ "The Naturalist". catalogue.nla.gov.au. National Library of Australia. 1865. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
External links edit
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