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BIRMINGHAM NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



Mr. G. E. Davis exhibited Abbe's Apertometer, and his own 

 Limiting Diaphragm for reducing the apertures of high angle objectives. 

 Mr. W. Cotterell exhibited a collection of crystals ; Mr. F. A. Walton, 

 minerals and crystals; Mr. W. J. Harrison, rocks, minerals, and 

 crystals; and the Committee of the Birmingham Water Department, 

 antlers and bones of deer found about 9ft. below the surface, in 

 digging the Shustoke Beservoir. 



Mr. J. E. Bagnall, who on a previous occasion had exhibited all the 

 grasses of Warwickshire, now showed a complete series of the British 

 Grasses, including Hierochloe borealis, collected by Robert Dick, the 

 Thurso naturalist. Mr. T. Bolton exhibited a collection of sea-weeds; 

 Mr. W. Southall photographs of American medicinal plants, and a 

 pharmaceutical herbarium, also a splendid group of the edible fungus, 

 ( 'litoeybe nebularis. Mr. W. B. Grove exhibited a large collection of 

 Fungi from Sutton Park, including the rare Chamceota echinata, and 

 the edible species Clitocybe nebularis and Pleurotus ostreatus. 



Mr. F. Pelton exhibited birds' eggs from the neighbourhood of 

 Birmingham ; Professor T. W. Bridge, on behalf of the Mason 

 College, various specimens of animal life ; Mr. F. A. Walton, a 

 collection of insects, and cases of birds ; Mr. G. S. Tye, fine collections 

 of British Crustacea and American Unionidse, the latter showing the 

 remarkable tendency to variation, which has, in one instance, 

 enabled book-naturalists to manufacture and append their names to 

 more than one hundred and fifty species out of the different forms 

 of one. 



The chief taxidermists of the town showed cases of birds, but the 

 great feature of the ornithological display— second, indeed, in interest 

 only to the microscopes — was the fine collection of British Birds 

 exhibited by Mr. R. W. Chase. These were exquisitely mounted, the 

 surroundings being in most cases an exact copy of the actual place in 

 which the birds were found. One of the finest was a group of the 

 Auk family, on a piece of chalk cliff. The collection was also made 

 more valuable by presenting in many cases the nest and eggs, and the 

 various stages of growth from the young to the adult. 



LIST OF SI'FCiKS FXllHilTKl) BY 



Aquila chrysaetus 

 Haliaetus albicilla 

 Paudion haliaetus 

 Falco peregrinus 



,, aosalon . . 

 Blilvus ictiuus 

 Pernis apivorus 

 Lanius exeubitor 



,, collurio 



,, rutilus 



Panurus biarmicus 



Golden Eagle 



White-tailed Eagle 



Osprey 



Peregrine Falcon 



Merlin 



Kite 



i [oney Buzzard 

 Great Grey Shrike 



Red-backed Shrike 



Woodchat Shi' ike 

 Bearded Titmouse 



MR. R. W. CHASE. 



Stornoway. 

 Ditto. 



Staffordshire. 

 . Olton. 



Bromsgrove. 



Bourne, Lincolnshire. 



Sussex. 



Wylde Green and 

 Brighton. 

 . Sutton Coldfield. 



Yorkshire. 

 . Cambridge. 



