17* ANNUAL MEETING- GENERAL BUSINESS. 



given i'r mi January bo April last, the attendance of Students at which 

 was as follows : — 



Lectures on Elementary Physiology, 28. (Prof. Bridge.) 

 Fuel !'•'• (Prof . Tilden.) 



en and Electricity 29. (Prof . Poynting.) 



Your Council is glad to be able to announce that it is intended to 

 continue tl I res, which, so far, have been experimental, it 



being proposed that they shall run side by Bide with the day Lectures 

 during the Session. Other subjects than those above stated maybe 

 lectured on by the present professors, in addition to those by the 

 additional staff. 



Mr. W. Jerome Harrison, F.G.S., a Member of the Union, and one 

 of the editors of the "Midland Naturalist." whose appointment as 

 Demonstrator of Science to the Birmingham Board Schools was 

 med in your Council's last report, is now successfully engaged in 

 giving expi rimental lessons on science to 1,200 children attending the 

 Birmingham Board School ; ; Mechanics, or rather Elementary Natural 

 Philosophy, is taught to the boys in the fifth and higher standards, and 

 Domestic Economy to the girls ; the latter subject being considered as 

 pplication of Chemistry and Physiology to the explanation of 

 the phenomena of home life. These lessons are most popular with the 

 children, and the Board is building a lecture-room and laboratory as a 

 permanent centre for the work, and has lately resolved to appoint a 

 First Assistant Demonstrator. At the same time the instruction in 

 science of a large number of pupil-teachers is carried on in connection 

 with the Science and Art department ; a plan too is being matured 

 by which the advantage of special courses of instruction at the Mason 

 Science College will be i the adult teachers. Your Council 



gladly give publicity to these interesting particulars. 



Invitations for next year's Meeting of the Union have been 

 1 from the Nottingham Literary and Philosophical Society, 

 and the Nottingham Naturalists' Society, and your Council recommend 

 that the Annual Meeting for 1882 be held at Nottingham, and that 

 Mr. A. H. Scott-White, B. Sc, B.A., etc., be appointed one of your 

 Honorary Secretaries. It will be necessary also to appoint another 

 Honorary Secretary in place of Mr. Badger, who declines to be 

 re-elected in consequence of increasing engagements. Mr. Badger 

 rved the Onion from its commencement to the present time. 



The arrangements for the present meeting are so satisfactory that 

 your Council feel tiny cannot too heartily express their approval or 

 too warmly thank the gentlemen on whom the great labour of 

 making them has devolved. 



It was then unanimously resolved: — 



C-'i " Thai the Council's report be received, adopted, entered on the 

 minutes, and printed iii the ' Midland Naturalist.'" 



(3) "That the Annual Meeting of the Union, in 1882, be held at 

 Nottingham." 



Mr. Egbebt D. Hamel, the Treasurer, next read his statement of 

 accounts, Erom which it appeared that the total receipts from 1878 

 t i L881 inclusive, had been £83 15b. 7d., (including £4 i:!s. 6d. special 

 the Darwin Medal Die Fund.) and the total payments 

 £45 19s. 9d., Leaving a balanoi of E37 15s. lOd. in hand, and a small 

 Bum to be collected Erom so oul of winch the current 



year's expenses, I ; bhi dies for the Darwin Medal, and the 



Darwin Prize would have to be paid. 



It was resolved, (1) "That the Treasurer's accounts he received, 

 1. and entered on the minutes." 



