Yorkshire Naturalists' Union

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

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

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

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

^ 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.
^ 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

Media related to Yorkshire Naturalists' Union at Wikimedia Commons

Official webpage of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union

[1] 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.

[2] 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.

[3] "The Naturalist". catalogue.nla.gov.au. National Library of Australia. 1865. Retrieved 20 August 2023.

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