136 ANNUAL MEETING. 
MIDLAND UNION OF NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETIES. 
SECOND ANNUAL MEETING AT LEICESTER, 
ON TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY, MAY 20TH & 2187, 1879, 
AnnvuaL MEETING. 
The Annual Meeting will be held in the Council Chamber of the Town 
Hall, Leicester, on Tunspay, May 20th, at half-past Three o’clock, the 
President of the Union (George Stevenson, 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 
1880 ; to appoint the Officers; 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. 
A Conversazione will be held in the Leicester Town Museum, 
(entrance in Hastings Street,) on Tuesday Evening, May 20th, the 
arrangements for which are under the direction of the Leicester Literary 
and Philosophical Society. There will be an exhibition of objects of 
general Scientific interest, Microscopy, the various departments of Natural 
History, Archzology,and Art. Members of Societies in the Union willing 
to contribute specimens, or to exhibit or to lend microscopes, will oblige 
by at once communicating with Mr. W. Jerome Harrison, Town Museum, 
Leicester. At intervals, a selection of Instrumental Music will be 
performed, under the direction of Mr. H. Nicholson. 
The charge for admission to the Conversazione will be 2s. 6d. Doors 
open at half-past Seven. Morning dress. Tickets are now ready, and 
can be obtained by members for themselves and for friends not members 
of the Union, through any of the Secretaries of the Societies in the 
Union; or direct from Mr. W. J. Harrison, Town Museum, Leicester. 
Tickets can be obtained up to Hight p.m., on Saturday, May 17th, at the 
Leicester Town Museum. 
EXCURSION. 
On Wednesday, May 21st, there will be an excursion to Charnwood 
Forest. This will be divided into two parties, one of which will be 
devoted chiefly to Geology, under the guidance of Mr. W. J. Harrison, 
F.G.S.; the other to Botany, under the guidance of Mr. F. T. Mott, 
F.R.G.S8. The two divisions will leave the Museum together at nine o’clock 
A.M., in carriages, and will continue together as far as Woodhouse 
Eaves. They will then separate, the Geological party taking a some- 
what wider circuit, and arriving at Newtown Linford an hour later. 
Both will return together at 6 30, arriving in Leicester at 7 30. A 
detailed account of the district (together with a map of the route) will 
be provided for all those intimating their intention of joining the 
Excursion. See also ‘‘ Rambles with a’-Hammer,” by W. J. Harrison, 
F.G.S., at page 117 of this number. 
Tickets for either party 7s. 6d. each, including meat tea. Tickets 
must be applied for not later than Saturday, May 17th, and may be 
procured from Mr. W. Jerome Harrison, Town Museum, Leicester. 
Applicants will please to state distinctly whether they intend to join the 
Geological or the Botanical party. 
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