Proceedings. 97 



[Microscopical and Natural History Section.'] 



Annual Meeting, April 13th, 1896. 



John Boyd, Esq., President of the Section, in the Chair. 



The annual report of the Council and the Treasurer's 

 statement were submitted and adopted. 



The following gentlemen were elected officers and 

 Council for the session 1896-97 : — 



President : Charles Bailey, F.L.S. 



Vice-Presidents : John Boyd ; James Cosmo Melvill, 

 M.A., F.L.S.; R. E. Cunliffe. 



Treasurer: Mark Stirrup, F.G.S. 



Secretary : Theodore Sington. 



Council : J. F. Allen ; T. A. Coward ; Alexander 

 Hodgkinson, M.B., B.Sc; W. E. Hoyle, M.A. ; Henry 

 Hyde ; Francis Nicholson, F.Z.S. ; C. Oldham ; 

 Thomas Rogers. 



Mr. James Cosmo Melvill, M.A., F.L.S. , exhibited 

 a fine specimen of the Shore Lark (Otocorys alpestris), shot 

 by his son, Mr. J. C. D. Melvill, in October, 1894, on the 

 seashore near Heysham, Morecambe Bay. It has been 

 submitted to Mr. John Wrigley, of Formby, who states 

 it to be the eighteenth or nineteenth specimen recorded as 

 captured in the county of Lancaster. 



Mr. W. E. Hoyle, M.AV, described Mr. Field's card 

 catalogue system of recording zoological literature. He 

 also showed a specimen number of the first instalment of 

 " Das Tierreich," a work which has been- undertaken by 

 the German Zoological Society ; when complete it will 



