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THE MIDLAND UNION. 
Dec., 1889. 
W. G. D. Fletcher, M.A., and Mr. Wm. Bedcall, Shrewsbury; 
Bev. P. M. Feilden, M.A. (President of the Oswestry and 
Welshpool Naturalists’ Field Club) ; Mr. Beeby Thompson, 
F.G.S., Mr. W. D. Crick, Mr. A. and Mrs. Kempson, Mr. 
M. H. Holding, Mr. J. Shuttleworth, and Mr. T. Pressland, 
Northampton; Mr. B. S. Bartleet, J.P., and Dr. Wm. Smith, 
Bedditcli; Mr. E. de Hamel, Middleton Hall, near Tamworth; 
Mr. W. H. and M. Carl Duignan, Walsall; Mr. Isaac Knowles, 
Miss Beilis, Wellington ; Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Cooper, and Dr. 
Finch, Leicester ; Mr. H. A. Bemrose and Mr. G. Fletcher, 
Derby ; while the Oxford Society provided a goodly number 
of attendants at the meetings, amongst whom were Mr. E. B. 
Poulton, F.B.S. (President, and President of the Union), Mr. 
H. M. J. Underhill (Secretary), and Mr. G. C. Druce, M.A. 
(Treasurer). Professors Westwood and Clifton, Drs. Collier, 
J. A. H. Murray, M.A., Sankey, and E. B. Tylor, F.B.S.; 
Sir John Conroy, M.A., Bevs. F. J. Smith, M.A., J. W. B. 
Bell, M.A., J. G. Burch, B.A., Messrs. D. H. Nagel, M.A., 
H. Balfour, M.A., Arthur Sidgwick, M.A., W. W. Fisher, M.A., 
V. H. Yeley, M.A., M. S. Pembrey, B.A., P. C. Mitchell, B.A., 
0. H. Latter, B.A., J. Woods, and many others. For the 
comfort of the visitors the most careful arrangements had 
been made. Many were most kindly and hospitably enter¬ 
tained at private houses, and the chief cause for regret on the 
part of the host society was their inability to provide similar 
accommodation for the whole of their visitors. 
The visitors gathered in the Universitv Museum at about 
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two p.m., and while the members of the Council held their 
annual meeting, those who were not officially occupied were 
formed into small parties and conducted over Oxford. In the 
Universitv Museum, the Pitt-Bivers Collection (Anthro¬ 
pology), Mr. H. Balfour, M.A., kindly explained points of 
special interest, and in the Hope Collection (Insects), Professor 
Westwood directed attention to the most interesting features, 
while in the Central Court of the Museum, the Collections 
illustrating Comparative Anatomy and Osteology, the 
Secondary Fossils, and the Primary Fossils in the Grindrod 
Collection, which are especially fine, were open to inspection. 
The Bodleian Library and Camera, the Ashmolean Museum 
(Archaeology j, the Clarendon Press, and the Botanical 
Gardens, Museum, and Library were also open to visitors. 
The Annual Meeting of the Council was held at 2 30, the 
following being present :—Mr. E. B. Poulton, M.A., F.B.S. 
(President), in the chair, Mr. B. W. Chase, Bev. G. Deane, 
D.Sc., Bev. P. M. Feilden, M.A., Mr. W. B. Grove, M.A.,Mr. 
