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NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY’S REPORT. 
Mail, 1890. 
interchanges of invitations between this section and the Geolo¬ 
gical Section of the Birmingham Philosophical Society and the 
Vesey Club, Sutton. The following papers have been read:— 
February 19tli.—“ Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies,” by Dr. Tempest 
Anderson, of York. 
March 19th.—Petrology of the Pebbles of our District,” by Mr. 
T. H, Waller, B.A., B.Sc. 
April 16th.—“ The Gulf Stream and its Effects upon the Climate of 
England and Norway,” by Mr. W. P. Marshall, M.I.C.E. 
May 21st.—“ Gold-bearing Quartz of South Africa,” by Mr. Graze- 
brook, of Dudley. 
June 18th.—“Picrites,” by Mr. T. H. Waller, B.A., B.Sc. 
October loth.—“ Singular Water-worn Rocks in the Orkneys and 
Shetlands,” by Mr. W. P. Marshall, M.I.C.E. 
November 19th.—“ Norfolk Broads,” by Messrs. R. W. Chase and 
C. Pumphrey. 
December 17th.—“Grey Wethers,” by Mr. W. R. Hughes. 
Sociological Section (President, W. R. Hughes, F.L.S; 
Secretary, Herbert Stone, F.L.S.)—A total of twenty-four 
meetings has been held, of which eleven were ordinarv and 
thirteen supplementary. At the ordinary meetings the follow¬ 
ing papers have been read :— 
January 22nd. — On “Tennyson’s Country,” by Mr. Cuming 
Walters. 
February 26fch.—On “Evolution in General,” by Mr. W. B. 
Grove, M.A. 
May 28th.—On “ Recollections of Dickens’s Country,” by Mr. 
W. R. Hughes. 
October 22nd.—On the “Principles of Sociology,” by Miss Con¬ 
stance C. W. Naden. 
November 26th.—On “ Robert Burton, Author of the * Anatomy of 
Melancholy,”’ by Dr. Showell Rogers. 
At the supplementary meetings the following papers have 
been read :— 
January 10th.—On “ The Rhythm of Motion,” by Mrs. Biiowett. 
January 24th.—On “ The Recapitulation and Summary of ‘ First 
Principles,”’ by Mr. Herbert Stone. 
February 14th.—On “ Evolution and Dissolution,” by Mr. Kineton 
Parkes. 
February 28th.—On “ The Interpretation of Evolution,” by Mr. 
Herbert Stone. 
March 14th.—On “ The Instability of the Homogeneous,” by Miss 
L. A. Goyne. 
March 28tli. — On “ The Multiplication of Effects,” by Mr. Colbran 
J. Wainwright. 
May 9.—On “ Segregation,” by Mr. Harold W. Buncher. 
May 25th.—On “ Equilibration,” by Miss Byett. 
June 6th.—On “Dissolution,” by Mr. Alfred Browett. 
June 20th.—On “ The Summary and Conclusion of ‘ First Prin¬ 
ciples,’ ” by Mr. W. B. Grove, M.A. 
November 14th.—On “ Super-organic Evolution and the Factors of 
Social Phenomena,” by Mr. F. J. Cullis, F.G.S. 
