MEETING OF NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETIES. 
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MIDLAND UNION OF NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETIES. 
The Eighth Annual Meeting will be held at Birmingham on Tues¬ 
day and Wednesday, the 10th and 17tli June instant. 
PROGRAMME FOR TUESDAY. 
The Annual Meeting will be held in the Examination Hall, Mason 
College, Birmingham, on Tuesday, June 16th, at 3.15 p.m., the 
President of the Union (Mr. R. W. Chase) in the Chair. The business 
of the Meeting will be to receive the Report of the Council and the 
Treasurer’s Accounts ; to fix the place of the next Annual Meeting in 
1886 ; to award the Darwin Medal for the year 1885; to consider any 
suggestions that Members may offer; to discuss the work of the 
Union during the coming year; and to transact all necessary business. 
The President will open the Meeting with an Address. 
Reception Room.— A Reception Room will be provided at the 
Society’s Library, Mason College, for members of the Union and other 
visitors, and letters may be addressed there. An arrival book will 
lie on the table, and it is hoped that all visitors will enter their names 
and temporary addresses in it, for the information of friends who may 
desire to communicate with them. The same room will also serve as 
a news room, and will be supplied with newspapers. 
Conversazione.— A Conversazione will be held, by permission of 
the Mayor (Aid. Martineau), in the Town Hall, Birmingham, on 
Tuesday Evening, June 16th. There will be an Exhibition of 
Objects of general Scientific Interest, Microscopy, various depart¬ 
ments of Natural History, Art, and Archaeology. Members of 
Societies in the Union and friends willing to contribute specimens, 
or to exhibit or lend microscopes, will oblige by at once communica¬ 
ting with Mr. J. Morley, Society’s Room, Mason College, Birmingham. 
At intervals a selection of music will be performed upon the grand 
organ by Mr. Stimpson. The charge for admission to the Conversa¬ 
zione will be 2s. 6d. Doors open at half-past seven. Morning Dress. 
Carriages may be ordered for half-past ten. Tickets are now ready, 
and can be obtained by members for themselves, and for friends not 
members of the Union, through any of the Secretaries of the Societies 
in the Union, or direct from Mr. J. Morley, Mason College, Bir¬ 
mingham. 
PROGRAMME FOR WEDNESDAY. 
Excursions. —On Wednesday, June 17th, there will be three Excur¬ 
sions, viz.: to Coventry and Kenilworth ; to Cannock Chase ; and to 
The Lickey. 
Coventry and Kenilworth.—The train will leave Birmingham (New 
Street) at 9.40, arriving at Coventry at 10.11. The party will be met 
at the station by Mr. W. G. Fretton, F.S.A., who will conduct the 
members to the following places of interest in the city : Site of Cheyles- 
more Manor House, Grey Friars Spire, now attached to Christ Church; 
all that remains of the Franciscan Monastery, Ford’s Hospital, a mag- 
