MIDLAND UNION : NOTTINGH.\JI MEETING. 129 



MIDLAND UNION OF NATURAL HISTORY 

 SOCIETIES. 



THE NOTTINGHAM MEETING OF 1882. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 



The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Midland Union of Natural History 

 Societies will be held in the Lectm-e Theatre, at University College, 

 Nottingham, on Thursday, June loth, at Three o'clock, the President 

 of the Union (Appleby Stephenson, Esq.) in the chair. The business 

 of the Meeting will be to receive the Report of the Council and the 

 Treasurer's Accounts ; to fix the place of the next Annual Meeting in 

 1883 ; to award the Darwin Medal for the year 1881-2 ; to consider any 

 suggestions that Members may offer ; to discuss the work of the Union 

 during the coming year ; and to transact all necessary business. The 

 President will open the Meeting with an Address. 



CONVERSAZIONE, etc. 



A CoKVEKSAZioxE will be held at the Mechanics' Institution, Mans- 

 field Road, Nottingham, on Thursday evening, June 15th. There will 

 be an exhibition of objects of general scientific interest. Microscopy, 

 the various departments of Natural History, Archaeology, and Art. 

 Members of Societies iu the Union willing to contribute Specimens, or 

 to exhibit or lend Microscopes, will oblige by at once communicating 

 with the Local Secretary, Mr. E. Wilson, 18, Low Pavement, 

 Nottingham, from whom tickets (one shilling each) may also be 

 obtained. 



The room of the Literary and Philosophical Society, at the School 

 of Art, Waverley Street, Nottingham, will be opened as a Reception 

 Room for Members of the Union and visitors, and letters mav be 

 addressed there. An Arrival Book will lie on the table, and it is hoped 

 that visitors will enter their names and temporary addresses iu it for 

 the information of friends who may desire to communicate with them. 

 The Library and Herbarium of the Society will be open to the 

 inspection of Members of the Union. 



LocAi, ExcuBsioN TO THE HEMiiOCK Stone. Bramcote, Notts. — On 

 Thursday Morning, June 1.5th, arrangements will be made for a party 

 to visit the " Hemlock Stone '" (a curious isolated rock of that part of 

 the New Red Sandstone formation known as the Keuper Basement 

 Beds), five miles from Nottingham, in conjunction with a party of the 

 Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society. Breaks may be engaged 

 at 2s. 6d. per head to leave Nottingham at 9.30 a.m., arriving in return 

 at 12.0 noon. If a sufiicient number send in their names to Mr. E. 

 Wilson (Local Secretary) on or before Saturday, June 10th, he will 

 engage carriages and arrange as to place of starting. 



Local Institctions, M.\nt:factures, &c. — On Thursday, June loth, 

 parties will be formed to visit the Art Museum at Nottingham Castle, 

 which the Curator will show to the visitors ; the University College, 

 Laboratories, Natural History Museum, and Free Library, which will 

 be shown by the Professors and the Librarian ; the Nottingham School 

 of Art ; and one or more Lace Manufactories in the neighbourhood. 



