190 MIDLAND UNION OF NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETIES. Auo.,1892. 
MIDLAND UNION OF NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETIES’ 
OSWESTRY MEETING, 
AUGUST 23rd and 24th, 1892. 
The arrangements for the next annual meeting are now 
finally settled, and the dates fixed are Tuesday and Wednesday, 
August 23rd and 24tli. The Union is invited by the Oswestry 
and Welshpool Naturalists’ Field Club; the president is 
A. T. Jebb, Esq.; the honorary secretaries, Mr. W. Wickham 
King, Pedmore House, Stourbridge, and Dr, T. Stacey Wilson, 
Wyddrington, Edgbaston, Birmingham; the hon. local 
secretary, the "Rev. 0. M. Feilden, M.A., Frankton Rectory, 
Oswestry, and the assistant hon. secretary, Mr. Arthur J. 
Parker, Cobden Buildings, Corporation Street, Birmingham. 
Programmes of the proceedings are now being circulated. 
They contain detailed information of the excellent arrange¬ 
ments made. Copies may be obtained from the secretaries of 
the various Societies in the Union, and from the officers whose 
names and addresses are given above. The annual meeting 
will be held on the first day at the Wynustay Hotel, Oswestry, 
and the conversazione in the evening of the same day (by the 
kind invitation of Colonel and Mrs. Barnes) at the Quinta, 
near Oswestry. The second day will be devoted to excursions, 
one for geologists, the other for botanists. Tickets for the 
conversazione and excursions may be obtained from the 
Rev. 0. M. Feilden, Frankton, Oswestry, and he will arrange 
for the accommodation of visitors at the Wynnstay Hotel, 
Oswestry, on being asked to do so. 
leprts of ^whites. 
BIRMINGHAM NATURAL HISTORY AND MICROSCOPICAL 
SOCIETY. — Microscopical Section. — July 5th. Mr. J. F. Goode 
(President) in the chair. Mr. T. Y. Hodgson exhibited Euglena viridis, 
encysted and otherwise, from Middleton. Mr. S. P. Bolton exhibited 
Trichodina parasitica on Hydra fusca. Biological Section.— July 12th. 
Mr. J. F. Goode (President) in the chair. Mr. C. Pumphrey exhibited 
a fungus (Stereum purpureum) which he had taken from an oak window 
frame at King’s Norton, a pane of glass having been cracked by it during 
growth. Mr. Bolton exhibited Nitella (in fruit) and Leptodora hyalina 
