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eighty, a carpenter’s shop and lathe-room for forty, a room for geomet¬ 
rical and model drawing, with large class rooms for mathematics and 
literature, and a dining-hall. The school will be maintained by the Bir¬ 
mingham School Board, and the scientific and technical training will be 
given under the direction of Mr. W. J. Harrison, Science Demonstrator 
for the Board. The Dixon Technical School is intended for 
boys who have passed through the six standards of the “ Code ” 
in one or other of the thirty Board Schools of the town, and 
whose parents are willing to give them one or two years’ further 
instruction in practical science. The building will accommodate 240 
boys, and within three days of the announcement of Mr. Dixon’s offer, 
applications were received from 280 of the parents of boys now in the 
sixth or seventh standards of the Birmingham Board Schools, desiring 
that their sons might be admitted to the school, and undertaking to 
keep them there for at least one year. It is hoped that the school will 
be ready to open in June next. 
BIRMINGHAM NATURAL HISTORY AND MICROSCOPICAL 
SOCIETY. —General Meeting, Jan. 29th. — Mr. J. E. Bagnall 
exhibited a series of mosses from. Merivale and Baddesley, including 
Hypnum tenellum (rare); and a lichen, Cladonia uncialis , new to the 
county; also (for Mr. J. B. Stone) Dicranum longifolium, in fruit; 
Pylaiscea polyantha, and Bartramia ithyphylla , from Norway. Mr. 
R. W. Chase then read a paper, entitled “Notes on the Terns 
Breeding at the Fame Islands,” which is printed in this number. 
—Annual General Meeting, Feb. 5th. — The annual report and 
treasurer’s audited accounts were read and adopted, and will be 
sent to the members. After the usual complimentary votes, the 
following officers and committee were elected for the ensuing year :— 
President, Mr. T. H. Waller; vice-presidents, Messrs. R. W. Chase 
and J. E. Bagnall; ex-presidents (who are vice-presidents), Messrs. 
W. Graham, W. R. Hughes, J. Levick, and W. Southall; treasurer, 
Mr. C. Pumphrey; librarian, Mr. W. B. Grove; curators, Messrs. 
R. M. Lloyd and H. J. Sayer; committee : Messrs. J. F. Goode, 
W. Hillhouse (Professor), C. Lapwortli (Professor), W. P. Marshall, 
J. Rabone, and Edmund Tonks; secretaries, Mr. J. Morley and 
Mr. W. H. Wilkinson. The meeting was then adjourned. Biological 
Section, Feb. 12. — Mr. W. P. Marshall was elected Chairman, and Mr. 
J. F. Goode, Secretary. Mr. J. E. Bagnall exhibited mosses: Fontinalis 
antipyretica , new locality, Earlswood; Fissedens inconstans, new to North 
Warwick, Hockley; Bryam obconicum, new to county, Rowington; 
Amblystegium liparium var. longifolium , new to South Warwick; and 
other mosses. Fungi: Travietes suaveolens, new to the district, Hampton- 
in-Arden. For Mr. J. B. Stone, Hyocomium Jlagellare , from New 
Forest; Dicranodontium longifolium , Cynodonthim strumiferum, Bartramia 
Halleriana , and other mosses from Norway. For Dr. M. C. Cooke, 
Auricularia mcscnterica, Phlebia merismoides, Merulius molluscus , Hydnum 
Weinmanni , and other fungi; also Hypnum Kneiffii and Sendtneri from 
South Beds, collected by Mr. J. Saunders; Rosa melvini, a new variety 
of Rosa sempervirens from Malvern, collected by Mr. Towndrow. Mr. 
W. P. Marshall exhibited a new method of drawing objects for 
