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MIDLAND UNION OF NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETIES. 
ARRANGEMENTS FOR MEETING AT LEICESTER, 
SEPTEMBER 18th and 19th, 1890. 
The thirteenth Animal Meeting is fixed to be held at 
Leicester on Thursday and Friday, the 18th and 19th of Sep¬ 
tember, under the presidency of F. T. Mott, Esq., one of the 
earliest and most influential supporters of the Union. The 
invitation proceeded from the Leicester Literary and Philo¬ 
sophical Society, the committee and members of which are 
doing their utmost to make the meeting a thoroughly succes- 
ful one. The presence of students of Natural History is 
cordially invited. 
First Day. —The meeting will commence on Thursday, 
September 18th, when the members of the Union, their 
friends, and the guests of the Council will assemble at Belvoir 
Street Schools, Leicester, at two p.m. (entrance in Wellington 
Street). 
2 to 2 30 p.m.—Members of the local society will conduct 
visitors over Leicester in four parties— [a) Archaeological; 
(b) Archaeological, to take reverse direction to above ; (c) 
party to visit the parks, &c. ; (d) party to visit the spinning 
mills. 
3 30 to 4 30 p.m.—Afternoon tea in the Belvoir Street 
rooms. 
4 30 p.m.—The Annual Meeting will be held, when the 
Report of the Council and the Treasurer’s accounts will be 
received; the place of the next annual meeting proposed ; 
any suggestions from members will be considered ; and all 
necessary business and discussion of work for the coming- 
year will be transacted. The President, F. T. Mott, Esq., 
will then deliver the inaugural address, the subject of which 
will be “ Organic Death.” A discussion will follow. 
In the evening, from 8 to 11 o’clock p.m., a Conversazione 
will be held in the Museum buildings, at which the Leicester 
Literary and Philosophical Society has arranged for exhibi¬ 
tions of objects of great interest. A detailed programme 
will be issued with the tickets for the meetings. All members 
of the Union who have exhibits of special interest in their 
possession, or are able to obtain such, are requested to com¬ 
municate at once with the Honorary Secretary of the Leicester 
Society, C. J. Billson, M.A., St. John’s Lodge, Clarendon 
Park Road, Leicester. 
Second Day, Friday, September 19th, will be devoted to 
Excursions, of which there will be two, viz.:— (a) Geological, 
