ANNUAL MEETING. 149 



MIDLAND UNION OF NATUEAL HISTORY SOCIETIES. 



THIED ANNUAL MEETING AT NOETHAMPTON. 



The Council of the Union met at half-past twelve o'clock in the 

 Council Chamber of the Town Hall, Northampton. There were delegates 

 present representing seventeen societies. The arrangements for the 

 Annual Meeting having been made, the Council adjourned to the Plough 

 Hotel, where, with a large number of visitors, they partook of luncheon. 

 ANNUAL MEETING. 



The Annual Meeting took place at three o'clock, and was also held 

 in the Council Chamber of the Town Hall, the President of the Union 

 (Sir Herewald Wake, Bart.) in the chair. There was a large attendance, 

 including Lord Lilford, (President of the Northampton Natural History 

 Society) ; Eevs. W. Thornton, F. C. Alderson, George Nicholson, and Canon 

 Scott ; Messrs. J. Eunson, F.G.S. ; G. C. Druce, F.L.S. (local Hon. Sec. 

 of the Union) ; George Scriven, E. G. Scriven, W. Hull, A. Kempson, H. 

 Terry, J. Jeffery, — Bailey, and T. L. Cordeux and C. E. Crick, (the 

 Hon. Sees.) of the Northampton Natural History Society. There were 

 also present the following delegates and members of other Societies in 

 the Union : — Eev. Canon Wormall, M.A., Bedfordshire Natural History 

 Society ; Eev. Dr. Deane, Mr. W. E. Hughes, F.L.S., Mr. E.W. Badger, 

 (Hon. Sec. of the Union,) Mr. John Levick, Mr. H.E.Forrest (Assist.Hon. 

 Sec. of the Union,) Mr. John Morley, and Mr. C.Pumphrey, Birmingham 

 Natural History and Microscopical Society ; Mr. Lawson Tait, F.E.C.S., 

 Birmingham Philosophical Society ; Mr. C. J. Watson and Mr. W. H. Cox, 

 Birmingham and Midland Institute Scientific Society ; Mr. H. F. Devis, 

 Birmingham School Natural History Society ; Eev. C. F. Thornewill, 

 M.A., Burton-on-Trent Natural History, &c, Society ; Col. H. Basevi, 

 Cheltenham Natural Science Society ; Mr. Pearce, Dudley Geological, 

 &c, Society ; Mr. F. T. Mott, F.E.G.S., and Mr. W. J. Harrison, 

 F.G.S. , Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society ; Dr. T. 

 Appleby Stephenson, Nottingham Literary and Philosophical Society ; 

 Mr. James Carver and Mr. Levi Lee, Nottingham Naturalists' 

 Society ; Eev. O. M. Feilden, M.A., Oswestry and Welshpool Naturalists' 

 Field Club ; Mr. Edwin Wheeler and Mr. J. W. Bodger, Peterborough 

 Natural History and Scientific Society ; Eev. T. Auden, M.A., Shropshire 

 Archaeological and Natural History Society ; Mr. Egbert D. Hamel, 

 (Hon. Treasurer of the Union,) Mr. Alfred Lucy and Dr. Colin G. 

 Campbell, Tamworth Natural History, &c, Society ; Eev. J. E. Vize, 

 M.A., Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club ; and others. 



Mr. G. C. Deuce (one of the Hon. Sees, of the Union) having read 

 the circular convening the meeting, Mr. H. E. Forrest (Assistant 

 Hon. Sec.) read the minutes of the last Annual Meeting at Leicester, 

 which, on the motion of Mr. F. T. Mott, seconded by Col. Basevi, were 

 confirmed and signed. 



The President (Sir Herewald Wake, Bart.) then delivered the 

 following address ; — 



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