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9. Ag. vaginatus, Bull. (Ay. muscarius, var. 6, plumbeus. 
With., Purt.) Woods and pastures. Common. Sept.- 
Oct. Pastures, Edgbaston ; Edgbaston Park! . With,., 
240, 268, Wood, near Pophills, Mrs. Buford, Purt. iii., 
203. Kenilworth! Russell, List. Ansty, Adams. Sutton 
Park ; Windley Pool, Four Oaks ; Tricklev Coppice ; 
Middleton ; pine wood, near Colesliill; Coleshill Pool, 
Water Orton; Ham’s Hall; Marston Green; Haywood; 
Ragley Wood ; Arrow ; Alveston Pastures. 
The varieties fulvus and lividus both occur, the former 
more commonly and usually smaller. 
Ag. strangulatus, Fr. A single specimen, probably 
belonging to this species, lias occurred at Ham’s Hall. 
(To be continued.) 
THE MIDLAND UNION OF NATURAL HISTORY 
AND MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETIES. 
The arrangements for the Annual Meeting at Northampton 
are in an unusually advanced state, and we are able to give 
our readers an outline of the proposals of the host society, 
the Northamptonshire Natural History Society and Field 
Club, as submitted to the Executive Committee of the Union 
at a meeting on Wednesday, April 25th. The date fixed for 
the Annual Meeting is Wednesday and Thursday, July 4th 
and 5th. The Right Hon. Earl Spencer will be President, 
the Annual Meeting itself being held in the Town Hall at 
the usual time on Wednesday afternoon. The address, in 
place of one by the President, will be delivered by the Rev. 
H. H. Slater, F.Z.S., the well-known ornithologist, upon 
some ornithological subject not at present fixed. After the 
meeting there will be a party to visit the principal Churches 
of Northampton, conducted by the Rev. T. C. Beasley, 
Secretary of the Architectural Society of Northampton, and 
in the evening there will be a conversazione in the Town Hall. 
Arrangements have been made to hold this in conjunction 
with the annual meeting of the Northampton Architectural 
Society, and papers will be read by C. A. Markham, Esq., 
Sir Henry Dryden. and others. On this first day of the 
meeting a luncheon will be provided for the Council, members 
of the Union, &c., in the middle of the day. 
On Thursday there will be three excursions. (1) The 
members of the Union will be permitted to join the annual 
excursion‘of the Northampton Architectural Societv, under the 
leadership of Sir Henry Dryden. to the most famous Churches of 
the neighbourhood; (2) a Geological excursion, visiting some 
