268 PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



Campbeli Eyton, Esq.,* Eyton Castle ; Col. Gat acre, Gatacre Hall ; W. Ormsbv Gore, Esq., 

 M.P., Porkington Hall ; Rt. Hon. Lord Hill, G.C.B., G.C.H., F.H.S., F.Z.S.; Sir Rowland 

 Hill, Bart., M.P., FJZ.S. ; Lady Hill ; Sir Francis Lawley, Bart., F.H.S., F.Z.S. ; Sir Bald- 

 win Leighton, Bart.; Rt. Rev. the Bishop of Lichfield, D.D., F.R.S. ; Rt. Hon. the Earl of 

 Lichfield, F.H.S., F.Z.S., Pitchford Hall ; C. K. Mainwaring, Esq., Oteley Park ; G. A. 

 Moultrie, Esq., Aston Hall; B. II. Owen, Esq., Tedsmore Hall ; Rt. Hon. the Earl of Powis, 

 D.C.L., F.H.S., F.Z.S. ; S. A. and J. M. Severne, Esqrs., Wallop Hall ; R. A. Slaney, Esq.,f 

 Walford Manor ; W. H. Slaney, Esq., F.Z.S., Hatton Grange ; Sir E. J. Smythe, Bart., Acton 

 Burnell. 



At present the meetings of the Society are held in the temporary Shire-hall, 

 Shrewsbury, and the apartments dedicated to the museum are so inadequate to 

 the purpose, that the committee suggests the propriety of erecting a building for 

 the use of the institution. This is, of course, a most desirable object, and, with 

 the assistance of the above and other opulent members, surely there could be no 

 difficulty in raising the requisite funds. The museum and library appear to be in 

 a flourishing state, for which the Society is mainly indebted to the munificent 

 donations of some of the members, especially T. B. Barrett, Esq., R. Corbet, 

 Esq., T. C. Eyton, Esq., Capt. Hill, Mr. Shaw, Major Wakefield, and the 

 Rev. Canon Newling. Probably the donations would be still more numerous 

 were there a museum wherein to arrange them. — Some lectures have been 

 delivered before the members, and a Fauna and Flora of the county are in pre- 

 paration, the former by T. C. Eyton, Esq., the latter by W. A. Leighton, Esq. 



DONCASTER LYCEUM. 



Considering the opulence of the county of York, and the number of scientific 

 men it contains, we cannot help feeling somewhat disappointed at the printed 

 report for the year 1836 of the Lyceum. In reply to this we shall be told, that 

 Doncaster is a small town, and that individuals from distant parts cannot be 

 expected to join its institutions. This, however, is not the case with Shrews- 

 bury ; the Society of that town includes members from many other counties, 

 some of which contain excellent public museums of a similar nature ; and the 

 same may be said of the Worcestershire Society. In general, the gentry of the 

 county are among the foremost to come forward and assist these institutions, 

 and there must be some reason for their not doing so in the present instance. 

 The principal reason we conceive to be, as we have elsewhere observed, the too 

 great attention paid by the Lyceum to Politics. A large number of the members 

 are quarterly*, and we suspect that many of them enter the Society merely for 



* Author of A History of the Rarer British Birds. 

 f Author of An Outline of the Smaller British Birds, a book written in an extremely pleaiant 

 fpirit. 



X Quarterly members pay 10s. per annum— annual members £1. 



