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MIDLAND UNION OF NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETIES. Nov., 1891. 
the subject for this present year — Archaeology—did not 
receive any contribution in the columns of the ‘ Midland 
Naturalist’ of sufficient importance to justify the award. 
Considering the wide range of this subject, and the large 
number of persons engaged in its study in the Midland 
district, this result cannot but be regarded as unsatisfactory. 
“ Several very prominent members of the Societies within 
the Union have fallen from within its ranks by reason of 
death. Prominently amongst these stands a well-known 
name deserving of more than passing notice. The Council 
have to express their deep regret at the death of Dr. George 
Deane, whose distinguished career, especially as a geologist, 
received a full notice in several of the journals and newspapers 
of the day. As a teacher and advanced thinker he achieved 
a great success, and his death is mourned by large numbers 
amongst the foremost ranks of science who had the privilege 
of his close personal acquaintance. 
“ During the past year Mr. Kineton Parkes, one of the 
honorary secretaries of the Union, received an appointment at 
Leek, and on his removal to that town felt obliged to resign 
his position as honorary secretary. The Council recognised 
the value of his services by passing a vote of thanks. The 
Council have elected Dr. T. Stacey Wilson to occupy the 
position as Mr. Parkes’s successor. 
“ The following important papers have appeared in the 
‘Midland Naturalist’ during the past year:—‘Animal 
Pedigrees,’ by A. Milnes Marshall, M.A., M.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.; 
‘Burma and its People,’ by A. W. Wills; ‘The Flora of 
Warwickshire,’ by J. G. Baker, F.R.S. (of Kew); ‘Dragons 
of the Prime,’ by A. Bernard Badger, B.A.; continuation of 
the ‘ County Botany of Worcester,’ by Wm. Mathews, M.A.; 
the continuation of the ‘Fungi of Warwickshire,’ by W. B. 
Grove, M.A., and J. E. Bagnall, A.L.S. ; serial articles on 
‘ Through Norway with the Yesey Club,’ by W. Hillliouse, 
M.A., F.L.S.; ‘The Aran Islands,' by Philip B. Mason, 
F.L.S., F.Z.S.; the ‘Scope of Sociology,’ by Mary E. 
Dalton ; ‘ A Visit to the North Cape and Norway,’ by C. 
Pumphrey and W. P, Marshall. Other articles are ‘Organic 
Death,’ by F. T. Mott; ‘Plant Marches,’ by J. B. Stone, 
F.G.S., F.L.S.; ‘The Birds of Oxfordshire,’ by J. Cordeaux; 
‘ Notes on a Trip to the Orkney and Shetland Islands,’ and 
‘ On the Gulf Stream and its Effect upon the Climate and 
Plants of England and Norway,’ by W. P. Marshall, M.I.C.E.; 
‘ Personal Observations of Glacial Action among British 
Mountains,’ by Horace Pearce, F.G.S., F.L.S. ; ‘ Foramini- 
