MIDLAND UNION OF NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETIES. 
SIXTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING, 
HELD AT BIRMINGHAM, JULY 11th and 12th, 1893. 
TUESDAY, JULY 11th. 
The annual council meeting was held at Mason College, 
Birmingham, on July 11th, at one o’clock, the President of the 
Society (Mr. A. T. Jebb, of Ellesmere) being in the chair. 
There were present fourteen representatives of ten societies, and 
five members of the executive committee, as follows:— 
List of Representatives. 
Birmingham Microscopists’ and Naturalists’ Union—Mr. Parker. 
Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society—Mr. W. H. 
Wilkinson, and Mr. J. Udall. 
Birmingham Philosophical Society —Professor Bridge and Mr. J. Landon. 
Birmingham and Midland Institute Scientific Society—Mr. 0. R. Robinson. 
Birmingham School Natural History Society—Mr. J. Shafto Heath and 
Mr. C. Davison. 
Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society—Mr. Bemrose. 
Dudley and Midland Geological and Scientific Society and Field Club— 
Mr. W. W. King. 
Oswestry and Welshpool Naturalists’ Field Club—Mr. A. T. Jebb and 
Lieut.-Col. J. R. Barnes. 
Oxfordshire Natural History Society—Mr. H. M. J. Underhill. 
Ellesmere Natural History Society and Field Club—Mr. Harold J. E. 
Peake. 
Present besides the above:—Mr. E. de Hamel (Treasurer), Mr. R. W. 
Chase, Prof. Hillhouse, Mr. W. R. Hughes, and Dr. T. Stacey Wilson 
(Honorary Secretary). 
Letters of apology were received from the following:— 
Mr. E. S. Cobbold, Miss Laurie, Messrs. G. Hyde, J. Hill White, 
Horace Pearce, J. A. S. Jennings, J. E. Bagnall, and T. H. Waller. 
In addition to the usual routine business, the important questions 
raised by the following paragraphs from the report of the executive 
committee were discussed :— 
(1.) Do local societies desire to have a common journal, and, 
if so, will they join in contributing more papers, and take a larger 
number of copies ? There appears to be a feeling that members of 
August, 1893. 
