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THE MIDLAND UNION. 
Dec. , 1889 . 
The Council very much regret to report that the Northamptonshire 
Natural History Society, under whose auspices the Annual Meeting 
of last year was held, have decided to withdraw, after this year, from 
the Union. Negotiations are, however, on foot with the Birmingham 
Entomologists’ Society for their affiliation with the Union This is a 
young society which is doing very valuable work in Entomology, and 
the Union hope that it will raise this study to a higher level in the 
Midlands than it has hitherto attained. 
Darwin Medal. 
The subject for which the Darwin Medal is awarded this year is 
Geology, and the papers which have appeared in the “ Midland 
Naturalist,” and were eligible for the competition, were submitted to 
the following gentlemen, who had kindly consented at the request of 
the Council to act as adjudicators, viz., H. W. Crosskey. LL.D., 
F.G.S. ; G. Deane, D.Sc., B.A., F.G.S. ; Professor J. W. Judd, 
F.R.S., F.G.S. ; Professor Charles Lapwortli, LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S.; 
J. J. H. Teale, M.A., F.G.S.; and W. W. Watts, M.A., F.G.S. 
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The papers submitted to these gentlemen were as follows:— 
“ The Middle Lias of Northamptonshire,” by Beeby Thompson. 
“ The Geological Structure of Titterstone Glee Hill,” by the Rev. 
J. D. La Touche. 
“ Niagara : its Physical and Geological Conditions,” by W. P. 
Marshall. 
“ A Deep Boring near Birmingham”; “Faults in the Drift”; 
“Rocks of Cambrian Age at Dosthill ”; “Deep Boring in 
Keuper Marls,” by W. J. Harrison. 
“Structure of Rowley Rag”; “Rock from New Zealand”; 
“Gold at Mount Morgan, Queensland”; “Micro-chemical 
Methods for Separating Minerals ” ; “ Separation of Minerals 
by Heavy Solutions”; “Petrography of our Local Pebbles ” ; 
“ Crystallization in Rocks”; “ A Lithia-bearing Granite from 
South Devon”; “Notes on some Norwegian Rocks,” by 
T. H. Waller. 
“Inaccuracies in Leicestershire Geological Survey”; “ Fossi- 
liferous Haematite Nodules”; “Fossil Tree at Clayton”; 
“ Stigmaria,” by W. S. Gresley. 
“Barium Sulphate as Cement in Sandstone,” by F. Clowes. 
Three of these investigations were picked out by the adjudicators 
for special mention, viz., those by Mr. Beeby Thompson, Mr. W. S. 
Gresley, and Mr. Tlios. II. Waller; and of these, four of the adju¬ 
dicators placed Mr. Waller first, one gave Mr. Beeby Thompson first 
place, and one bracketted these two gentlemen together. 
Acting upon these reports, the Council have awarded the Darwin 
Medal for 1889 to Mr. Thos. H. Waller, B.A., B.Sc., for liis researches 
upon Local Petrography. 
