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neighbourhood, and the well-known energy of the members of the Local 

 Society will ensure a successful and well-attended meeting. The Council 

 recommended that Mr. W. G. Davy, of Tamworth, and Mr. W. Jerome 

 Harrison, F.G.S., of Birmingham, be appointed General Honorary 

 Secretaries for the ensuing year. 



It was resolved, on the motion of the President, seconded by the 

 Rev. J. F. McCallan, that the report be received, adopted, and printed 

 in the Midland Naturalist. 



PRESENTATION OF THE DARWIN MEDAL FOR 188L 



The President, in handing the Darwin Medal to Mr. Edward Wilson. 

 F.G.S., said that it was no slight honour to have one's name associated 

 with that of Charles Darwin. This was the first medal that had been 

 awarded by the Union, and he was very proud to think that it had 

 been won by a Nottingham geologist. 



A vote of thanks to the adjudicators of the Darwin Medal was 

 moved by Mr. J. P. Briscoe, seconded by Mr. W. Rigby, carried, and 

 acknowledged by Mr. G. B. Rothera. A vote of thanks was also 

 passed to Sir Herewald Wake, Bart., for his renewal of his offer of a 

 prize for Entomology. 



Mr. W. J. Hakriso . proposed, and it was resolved, " that a copy of 

 the Darwin Medal be piesented to the family of the late Charles Darwin." 

 It was stated that the dies for the Medal had been most admirably 

 executed by Mr. Joseph Moore, of Birmingham ; it bore on one side a 

 bas-relief biist of Darwin, and on the reverse a branch of coral, 

 emblematic of one of the greatest I'esearches of the deceased naturalist. 



Mr. E. D. de Hamel (lion, treasurer) next read his statement of 

 accounts, from which it appeared that the receipts for the past jear 

 amounted to £27 13s. lid., which, with a balance from the preceding 

 year of £33 2s. 4d., made a total of £60 16s. 3d. ; the expenditure 

 amounted to £55 5s. 7d., leaving a balance of £5 Os. Sd. Subscx-iptions, 

 however, were still due from four Societies, amounting to £7 7s. 7d. 

 For the Darwin Medal Die Fund a sum of £14 2s. 6d. had been either 

 received or promised, the cost of the dies being £15. 



It was resolved that the Treasurer's accounts be received, accepted, 

 and entered on the minutes. 



Mr. W. J. Harrison (Birmingham), and Mr. W. G. Davy (Tamworth), 

 were elected Hon. Secretaries, and Mr. Egbert de Hamel, Hon. 

 Treasurer. 



The thanks of the meeting were given to the officers of the Union 

 for their services during the past year ; to the officers and members of 

 the Nottingham Literary and Philosophical Society, Naturalists' 

 Society, Working Men's Naturalists" Society, and G. R. S. Naturalists' 

 Society, for the very complete and admirable arrangements made by 

 them for the present gathering ; aud to the President of the Union 

 (Dr. A. Stephenson) for his able aud courteous conduct in the chair. 



VISIT TO THE HEMLOCK STONE. 



In the morning Mr. J. J. H. Teall, M.A., F.G.S., accompanied a 

 party of visitors to the remarkable pillar of rock on Stapleford Hill, 

 known as the Hemlock Stone. This rock is formed out of the Keuper 

 Basement Beds, and, although the Government Geological Surveyor 

 (Professor Hull) would assign its origin to the action of the sea, yet 

 there can be no reasonable doubt but that it has been sculptured out 

 by atmospheric denudatiou. 



