THE MIDLAND UNION OF NATURAL HISTORY AND 
SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
The sixteenth annual meeting and conversazione will be held at 
Birmingham on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 11th and 12th, 1898. 
PROGRAMME OF PROCEEDINGS FOR 
TUESDAY, JULY 11th. 
The members of the council will assemble at 1 p.m. in the 
Library of the Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical 
Society, at Mason College, Birmingham. 
The Annual Meeting 
will be held at 1.30 p.m. in the Examination Hall of Mason 
College, the President of the Union, Mr. W. H. Wilkinson, in the 
chair. The business of the meeting will be to receive the report of 
the council and the treasurer’s accounts ; to fix the place of the 
next annual meeting; to discuss the work of the union during the 
coming year ; to receive any suggestions that members may offer ; 
and to transact all necessary business. 
Reception Room. 
The reception room will be in the Professors’ Room at the 
Mason College, and visitors are requested to enter their names and 
temporary and permanent addresses in the arrival book, which will 
be on the table. Several of the famous Birmingham manufactories 
will be open to visitors, tickets of admission to which may be obtained 
of the honorary local secretary. 
The Conversazione 
will be held in the Physics Laboratory, Mechanical Drawing Room, 
the Botanical Laboratory, and the Zoological Museum of the 
Mason College. Evening dress optional. Tickets Is. each, 
including refreshments. 
WEDNESDAY, JULY 12th. 
EXCURSIONS. 
Geological. 
Professor Lapwortli, F.R.S., will lead an excursion to the 
Cambrian Rocks of Nuneaton and Atherstone. The neighbourhood 
of Nuneaton and Atherstone is remarkable from a geological point 
July, 1893. 
