THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT 
OF THE 
BIRMINGHAM NATURAL HISTORY AND MICROSCOPICAL 
SOCIETY, 
Presented by the Council to the Annual Meeting, 
February 7th, 1898 . 
The Council have the pleasure of submitting the following 
Annual Report of the Society’s proceedings for the past year, which 
they consider, on the whole, satisfactory. The funds show a 
small balance in hand, but there is a slight decrease in the number 
of members, which it is hoped will be speedily made up. 
The Annual Conversazione of the Society was held on 
December 20th, in the Examination Hall of Mason College, and 
was very successful in the large attendance and the interesting 
character of the exhibits. A collection of skeletons of animals 
and birds was exhibited by Professor Bridge, including a fine 
skeleton of a lion recently added to the College museum ; and a 
number of lizards, &c., showing the pineal eye. Mr. Chase 
exhibited a fine series of British birds from his collection, and Mr. 
Spicer contributed several valuable exhibits of animals and birds, 
British and foreign. Dr. Lapworth exhibited a collection of flint 
implements; Mr. Sherwood, glaciated striated stones from the 
neighbourhood of Birmingham ; and Mr. Wickham King a collec¬ 
tion of Breccia specimens from the Clent Hills. Mr. Wilkinson 
contributed an interesting collection of Egyptian objects that he 
had brought from a recent excursion up the Nile ; and Mr. Tye 
exhibited a fine series of British marine shells. Mr. Charles 
Wallis lent a very interesting series of water-colour drawings of 
mountain scenery that lie had taken when on his journey round 
the world. An interesting series of photographs of the scenery on 
the River Severn was exhibited by Mr. Middleton and Mr. Fowler. 
A number of finely executed platinotypes of Norwegian scenery 
were lent by Messrs. Gifford, of Aberdeen ; and photographs of 
Swiss glaciers by Mr. Sherwood and by Messrs. Kemvorthy and 
Bailey. A series of photographic lantern slides was shown by 
March, 1893. 
