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MIDLAND UNION OF NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETIES. 
and publishers of the journal, who have so loyally endeavoured to 
keep it at a level of excellence worthy of the Midlands and its 
metropolis. 
Next Annual Meeting. 
It was recommended that owing to the absence of any invitation 
for next year, the question of the time and place of the next annual 
meeting be left to the executive committee. 
Nomination of Office-bearers. 
The following office-bearers were nominated :— 
President.— W. H. Wilkinson, President of the Birmingham Natural 
History and Microscopical Society. 
Editors of the “Midland Naturalist” till December 31st, 1893.— 
E. W. Badger and Professor Hillhouse. 
Treasurer.— Egbert de Hamel. 
Members of executive committee in addition to the secretaries 
of the societies, as follows :— 
Horace Pearce, F. L.S., Stourbridge. 
W. B. Grove, M.A., St. Edmund’s College, Edmund Street. 
W. R. Hughes, F.L.S., Council House. 
J. E. Bagnall, A.L.S., Wittou Road. 
T. H. Waller, B.A., B.Sc., Gough Road. 
W. Madeley, Dudley. 
A. W. Wills, J.P., Wylde Green. 
R. W. Chase, Priory Road. 
J. F. Goode, The Moors, Handsworth. 
T. Stacey Wilson, M.D., Wyddrington, Edgbaston. 
A. T. Jebb, Ellesmere. 
The Council was unable to nominate a secretary, but recom¬ 
mended that the president be desired to call a meeting of the 
executive committee, and that they be empowered to appoint an 
interim secretary. 
A vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, Mr. A. T. Jebb. 
THE ANNUAL MEETING. 
The annual meeting was held at about three o’clock, in 
Mason College, the attendance being fair. 
Letters of apology were read. 
The minutes of last meeting at Oswestry were read and 
initialed. 
August, 1893. 
