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MIDLAND UNION OF NATUKAL HISTORY SOCIETIES. 



NOTTINGHAM MEETING, 1882. 



Members of the Societies in the Union will be glad to rearl the 

 following details of the arrangements for the coming meeting. 



The Joint Committee of representatives of the three Nottingham 

 Societies subscribing to the Union, viz: — The Nottingham Literary 

 and Philosophical Society, the Nottingham Naturalists' Society, and 

 the Nottingham Working Men's Naturalists Society met together at 

 the School of Art, Nottingham, on Friday, March 17th, when T. 

 Appleby Stephenson, Esq.. M.D., President of the Nottingham Literary 

 and Philosophical Society, was elected President of the Union for 18S2. 

 and Mr. Edward Wilson. F.G.S., IS. Low Pavement, Nottingham. 

 Tiocal Hon. Secretary. 



The Annual fleeting was fixed to be held on 'riiursihiy and ]''i-iday, 

 l.lth and Kith June next. The following Excursions were agreed upon 

 if arrangements for them can be made : — 



1. Welbeck Abbey and Cresswell Crags. 



2. Castleton. 



Welbeck Abbev, on the north borders of Notts and Derbyshire, is 

 the seat of His Grace the Duke of Portland, and is celebrated for its 

 remarkable edifices, riding school, and tan gallop, underground galleries, 

 conservatories, etc., erected by the late Duke, while Cresswell Crags 

 are of great interest on account of the caves in the Magnesian Lime- 

 stone, containing remains of extinct mammalia and rude implements 

 of prehistoric man. 



Castleton, in North Derbyshire, the route to which would take the 

 visitors through the beautiful dale scenery of the Derwent and 

 Wye, followed by a drive across the Derbyshire Moors within view of 

 the Peak, is celebrated for its remarkable scenery, its caverns, dry 

 gorge, and subterranean watercourse through limestone rocks of 

 carboniferous age, its interesting fossils and minerals, its ruined 

 castle (the Peveril Castle of Sir Walter Scott) possesses also a capital 

 and well-arranged museum of geological specimens, and very fair hotel 

 accommodation. 



A large and influential General Committee was appointed, con- 

 sisting of the above-mentioned representatives and other gentlemen, 

 men of position, or those who possess scientific attainments f)r 

 encourage students of Natural History in the town and neighbourhood. 



It was proposed that the past Presidents of the Union should be 

 Vice-Presidents of the Nottingham Meeting. Two Sub-committees 

 were appointed : 1. Reception and Finance ; 2. Conversazione and 

 Excursion. Other arrangements are in progress, and will be 

 announced in due course. 



The Nottingham Literary and Philosophical Society have placed 

 their room at the School of Art at the service of the Local Committee 

 for Committee Meetings. 



