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MIDLAND UNION OP NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETIES. 
OSWESTRY MEETING, 
August 23rd and 24th, 1892. 
The fifteenth annual meeting was held at Oswestry on the 
days above mentioned, on the invitation of the Oswestry and 
Welshpool Naturalists’ Field Club, under the presidency of 
A. T. Jebb, Esq., of Ellesmere. The following delegates were 
present :—Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical 
Society, J. F. Goode (president), W. H. Wilkinson (secretary) ; 
Birmingham Philosophical Society, J. Udall ; Birmingham 
and Midland Institute Scientific Society, C. R. Robinson ; 
Oaradoc Field Club, E. S. Cobbold (secretary), W. Phillips ; 
Dudley and Midland Geological and Scientific Society and 
Field Club, W. W. King ; Oswestry and Welshpool Naturalists’ 
Field Club, A. T. Jebb (president), Rev. 0. M. Feilden, M.A. 
(secretary) ; Oxfordshire Natural History Society, H. M. J. 
Underhill; Worcestershire Naturalists’ Field Club, Horace 
Pearce (president). The following members of the Executive 
Committee were present:—The lion, secretaries, W. Wickham 
King, Pedmore, Stourbridge, and T. Stacey Wilson, M.D., 
Birmingham; A. J. Parker, assistant lion, secretary, Bir¬ 
mingham ; Messrs. R. W. Chase, J. F. Goode, W. B. Grove, 
M.A., and Horace Pearce, F.L.S. Amongst the other 
visitors were :—Mrs. R. T. Rea and Mr. C. Rea, Mr. and Miss 
Rose (Worcester), MissJermyn, Mrs. W. H. Wilkinson (Sutton 
Coldfield), Miss Wilson, Miss A. D. Wilson, Dr. Fraser 
(Wolverhampton), Messrs. H. Miller, F. Greenway (Birming¬ 
ham), W. B. Scott, J. F. Bland (Dudley), Henry Johnson 
(Dudley), G. Lavender (Walsall), W. B. Malins (Walsall), 
W. Burson, L. J. Reade (Wolverhampton), C. R. Robinson 
(Birmingham), &c. 
The meeting was in all respects most satisfactory, 
and, with the exception of Tuesday evening, the weather 
was all that could be desired. After dinner at the 
Wynnstay Hotel, Oswestry, the Council met at the same 
place, and transacted the necessary preliminary business, at 
three o’clock (Tuesday). At four o’clock the Annual Meeting 
of members took place, the President, A. T. Jebb., Esq., in 
the chair. He said :—First of all, I should like to assure you 
how greatly I appreciate the honour of presiding over you on 
this occasion. Next, as the president of the local society in 
this neighbourhood, and on their behalf, I desire to welcome 
the members of the other societies who propose to pitch 
their camp in our midst, for, I am sorry to say, too brief a 
time. Lastly, I believe it is expected of me to give you 
something in the shape of an inaugural address, but this I 
