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MIDLAND UNION OF NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETIES. 
The Caradoc and Severn Valley Field Club. 
The Cheltenham Natural Science Society. 
The Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. 
The Dudley and Midland Geological and Scientific Society and Field 
Club. 
The Ellesmere Natural History Society and Field Club. 
The Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society. 
The Malvern Field Club. 
The Oswestry and Welshpool Naturalists’ Field Club. 
The Oxfordshire Natural History Society. 
The Rugby School Natural History Society. 
The Worcestershire Naturalists’ Field Club. 
The Severn Valley Field Club has been amalgamated with the 
Caradoc Field Club, and so the Union consists of seventeen societies, 
an increase of one as compared with last year. 
Resignation of Office-bearers. 
The secretaries of the Midland Union have intimated their 
intention of resigning their respective offices at the forthcoming 
annual meeting. The difficulty which has of late years been 
experienced in procuring suitable persons as secretaries, and of 
making the Union effective in bringing distant societies into touch 
with one another, or in inducing any united action amongst the 
societies, made the executive committee recommend that the 
whole question of the continued existence of the Union should 
be brought before the annual meeting. 
The Council, after carefully considering this subject, makes the 
following recommendations :—(1.) That the Midland Union of 
Natural History Societies be continued. (2.) That the “ Midland 
Naturalist” cease to be the organ of the Midland Union, and that 
the executive committee be directed to accept the intimation of 
Messrs. Wright, Dain, Peyton, and Co. that they intend to discon¬ 
tinue the publication of the same on the 31st December, 1893; and 
also to take such other steps as are necessary for giving effect to 
this resolutiou. 
Next Annual Meeting. 
That the question of annual or biennial meetings, the time 
and place of the next meeting, the appointment of hon. secretaries, 
and financial arrangements be left to the executive committee. 
Nomination of Office-bearers. 
Officers for the ensuing year were nominated as above stated. 
The “ Midland Naturalist.” 
The following is a list of the principal papers in the “ Midland 
Naturalist ” since the last Annual Meeting :— 
“The Silurian Outlier West of Caer Caradoc” ( Illustrated ), by E. S. 
Cobbold, Assoc.M.Inst.C.E., F.G.S. 
“Phenology, or the Annual Appearance of Certain Birds, Flowers of 
Plants, and Insects,” by F. A. Bellamy, F.R.Met.Soc. 
“ The Cultivation of Orchids,” by E. A. Bevers. 
August, 1893 . 
