The Union's collection of Yorkshire Geological Photographs 

 will also be on view. Refreshments will be served in the 

 No. 6 Gallery. 

 Ibotcl BccommoDation 



The headquarters of the Union will be at the Albany Hotel, 

 opposite the Town Hall, and it is hoped that a good number of 

 members will stay the night in Sheffield, so as to show their 

 appreciation of the entertainment provided by the Sheffield 

 Society. 



Members requiring accommodation are requested to communicate with 

 the proprietor, a day or two previously. 



CarDs of /iRembersbip. 



The production of these is absohitely necessary for the obtaining of N.E. 

 railway tickets at reduced fares, and for admission to the various meetings. 



Members who have lost or mislaid their cards may have another on 

 application to the Secretary, enclosing a stamped addressed envelope. 



Associates may obtain theirs through the Secretary of their own local 

 Society. 



Election of Zen BODitional Hbcmbcts of ©eneral Committee. 



Voting Papers are not sent out this year, but members may vote by post- 

 card, addressed to the Secretary, making their choice from the List of Members. 



The Sheffield Public Museum, Weston Park, 



will be open for the inspection of members of the Union all day (from lo a.m.). 

 Mr. E. Howarth, curator of the Museum and Art Gallery, furnishes the following 

 sketch of those institutions : — The Sheffield Public Museum, established in 1875, 

 is open free to the public every week day except Friday. The collections illustrate 

 recent natural history, geology, mineralogy, pottery, and industrial art. While 

 these are intended to be general in character, the committee have endeavoured to 

 acquire, wherever possible, good representative local collections. Among these 

 there is a large herbarium formed during the latter part of the last century and the 

 beginning of this century by Mr. Jonathan Salt, and formerly belonging to the 

 Sheffield Literary and Philosophical Society. ^Ir. Salt's herbarium has been added 

 to since his death, and includes about 1,300 species of British plants, many of them 

 collected in the neighbourhood of Sheffield on spots long since covered by the 

 growth of the city. There is also a good collection of lepidoptera — the work of 

 many years' collecting by a local entomologist. Several large and interesting 

 collections of fossils have been secured by the museum, among them being those of 

 the Literary and Philosophical Society, Dr. H. C. Sorby, Mr. J. A. Blaydes, and 

 the Rev. Urban Smith. Mr. Blaydes' collection is rich in Yorkshire fossils, while 

 that of Mr. Smith is the result of a long life's labours in Stoney Middleton, Derby- 

 shire, and embraces an extensive series of mountain limestone fossils from tliat 

 rich geological neighbourhood, as well as a valuable series of fossils collected by 

 Mr. Carrington in tlie neighbourhood of Wetton, Staffordshire. There is not 

 sufficient space available for the proper display of these large geological collections, 

 and they are continued in drawers below the show cases. In recent zoology there 

 is a fairly typical collection of llie various classes of animals, and several well- 

 mounted skeletons and disarticulated skulls. The European avifauna is especially 

 well represented, many of the sjiecimens being from the collection of the late Henry 

 Seebohm, F.Z.S. 



The chief feature of the archaeological deiiarlment is the Bateman collection of 

 British Antiquities formed by the late William and Thomas Bateman, of Middleton 

 Hall, Derbyshire, and purchased for the museum from his successor, Mr. T. W. 

 Bateman. This collection has been obtained chiefly from the graves of tiie ancient 

 inhabitants of Britain, and a great many of the objects have been found in York- 

 shire and Derbj'shire. Mr. Thos. Bafeman in his "Vestiges of the .\nli(]uities 



