Pec., 1889. 
THE MIDLAND UNION. 
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MIDLAND UNION OF NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETIES. 
TWELFTH ANNUAL MEETING, 
HELD AT OXFORD, SEPTEMBER 23rd and 24th, 1889. 
With every augury of a most successful gathering, the 
delegates and members of the various scientific societies 
constituting the Union assembled at Oxford on Monday, 
September 23rd. As far as outside attendance was con¬ 
cerned, the Twelfth Annual Meeting was one of the very 
largest the Union has had. No doubt the intrinsic attrac¬ 
tions of Oxford are great, and of these the Oxfordshire 
Natural History Society, the host for the occasion, availed 
itself to the utmost; no doubt specially strenuous efforts 
had been put forth, both by the host society and by the 
officials of the Union; but after making allowance for both 
of these agencies, the widespread interest in the successful 
maintenance of the Union, which was evinced by the attend¬ 
ance of sixty or more visitors, coming from centres so remote 
as Chester and Derby, was both satisfactory and gratifying. 
Amongst the visitors present at the meeting were Mr. R. W. 
Chase, Rev. Geo. Deane, D.Sc., Mr. W. R. Hughes, F.L.S., 
Mr. Geo. H. Kenrick, Mr. W. P. Ryland, Mr. and Mrs. John 
Rabone, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Clarke, Mr. W. K. Parkes 
(Assistant Secretary of the Union), Mr. 0. R. Robinson, Mr. 
Tlios. H. Waller, B.A., B.Sc. (President of the Birmingham 
Naturalists’ and Microscopists’ Union), Mr. W. H. Wilkinson, 
Mr. W. B. Grove, M.A. (President of the Birmingham Natural 
History and Microscopical Society), Mr. Herbert Stone, Mr. 
F. Grimley, Mr. J. Kenward, F.S.A. (President of the Bir¬ 
mingham Philosophical Society), Miss Jermyn, Mr. and Mrs. 
Antrobus, Mr. T. Y. Gardner, Dr. Lawson Tait, Professor 
Bridge, Professor and Mrs. Hillhouse, and others, of Bir¬ 
mingham ; Mr. and Miss Sliepheard, of Chester ; Mr. Horace 
Pearce, F.L.S., F.G.S. (President of the Dudley and Midland 
Geological Society and Field Club), and Mrs. Pearce; Mr. 
S. D. Williams, and Mr. G. M. Stubbs, Sutton Coldfield ; 
Mr. Francis Galton, F.R.S., of Leamington; Dr. Fitch, of 
Chaddesley, near Kidderminster (President of the Worcester¬ 
shire Naturalists’ Field Club); Rev. T. Auden, M.A. (Presi¬ 
dent of the Severn Valley Naturalists’ Field Club), Rev. 
