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Meetings. There were six Excursions during the Season 

 to the following places : — 

 1897. 



May 27th The Coombes, Broxton. 



June nth Shotwick. 



June 1 6th Bodorgan — Annual Excursion. 



July 14th Aston Hall Colliery and Hawarden. 



July 19th Delamere Forest and Meres. 



Sept. 8th Helsby — Works of the Telegraph Manufacturing 



Company, Limited. 



These Excursions were well attended, and in the hope 

 of stimulating our younger Members, our President, Mr. T. 

 Shepheard, F.R.M.S., offered three prizes — in Botany, 

 Geology, and Zoology, of £=, each. This was a very 

 generous offer on his part, and ought to have led to some 

 good results in the more diligent research and study of our 

 own surroundings. 



The Annual Conversazione was held on the 6th of 

 October, 1897. There was a large gathering of Members, and 

 the various exhibits were quite equal to those of previous 

 years. Lady lyETTicE Grosvenor was kind enough to 

 make the presentations. The Kingsley Memorial Medal 

 was this year awarded to W. Henry Dobie, Esq., M.B., for 

 his admirable Paper on the Birds of the District, which has 

 added considerably to our knowledge, and has brought into 

 a definite group one of the most interesting of our native 

 Fauna. The Kingsley Memorial Prize was awarded to 

 Mr. Ai,fred Newstead for his collection of life-histories 

 of Insects. The President's special Jubilee Prize was 

 awarded to Mr. A. E. Goodman for his collection of 

 Microscopic Botanical preparations. In replying to a 

 vote of thanks to L,ady lyETTicE Grosvenor, George 

 Wyndham, Esq., M.P., gave us one of his interesting and 

 instructive addresses, which are always greatly appreciated 

 by our Members. Amongst special objects of interest, 

 Mr. Spencer showed Ive's coloured photographs, an 

 exhibition quite new to many of our Members. 



