Yorkshire Naturalists' Union
{{Short description|United Kingdom association of naturalists}}
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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.{{cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=Nathan |title=Of stumps and stipes: comparisons between the cultures and identities of Yorkshire cricket and mycology at the turn of the twentieth century |journal=Notes and Records |year=2021 |volume=77 |pages=5–18 |doi=10.1098/rsnr.2021.0036 |s2cid=237435704 |doi-access=free }}
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.{{cite journal |last1=Alberti |first1=Samuel J. M. M. |title=Amateurs and Professionals in One County: Biology and Natural History in Late Victorian Yorkshire |journal=Journal of the History of Biology |date=2001 |volume=34 |pages=115–147 |doi=10.1023/A:1010373912743 |s2cid=85792645 |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1010373912743|url-access=subscription }} The journal was first published by the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union in August 1878.{{cite web|title=The Naturalist|publisher=National Library of Australia|website=catalogue.nla.gov.au|year=1865 |url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/359553?lookfor=(title:the%20AND%20title:naturalist)%20AND%20(yorshire%20OR%20naturalists')&offset=1&max=1889|access-date= 20 August 2023}}
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|date=September 2023}}
- 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
- Lorna I. Scott (1895–1984), botanist
- 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|date=September 2023}}
- Harold Wager (1862–1929), mycologist
- Roy Watling (b. 1938), mycologist
- Thomas William Woodhead (1863–1940), plant ecologist
References
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External links
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- [https://www.ynu.org.uk// Official webpage of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union]
Category:Natural history societies