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Bedfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club. 
Birmingham Microscopists’ and Naturalists’ Union. 
Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society. 
Birmingham Philosophical Society. 
Birmingham and Midland Institute Scientific Society. 
Birmingham School Natural History Society. 
Caradoc Field Club. 
Dudley and Midland Geological and Scientific Society and Field 
Club. 
Evesham Field Naturalists’ Club. 
Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society. 
Northamptonshire Natural History Society. 
Nottingham Naturalists’ Society. 
Nottingham Working Men’s Naturalists’ Society. 
Oswestry and Welshpool Naturalists’ Field Club. 
Peterborough Natural History and Scientinc Society. 
Rugby School Natural History Society. 
Severn Valley Naturalists’ Field Club. 
Tam worth Natural History, Geological, and Antiquarian Society. 
Work of the Year. 
Of the Work of the Societies during the year there is little of 
general interest to report. Most of the Societies publish separate 
transactions, but we think there is an increasing disposition to use the 
“Midland Naturalist” for the purpose of publishing observations and 
suggestions. 
The Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, Section D. 
(Zoology and Botany), and the Nottingham Naturalists’ Society are 
especially to be congratulated upon the praiseworthy attempt they 
are making to enable the “Midland Naturalist” to better fulfil one 
of the purposes for which it was established, namely, to be a 
means of making more widely known what is being done by the 
various Societies in the Union. 
Midland Naturalist. 
The numbers of this periodical which have appeared since the 
last report have, we consider, fully sustained or more properly 
enhanced its reputation, and the editors—Messrs. W. J. Harrison 
and E. W. Badger—deserve the thanks of all our members for their 
energy and activity in the office they hold. It is, however, obvious 
that a still larger number of Societies might, with advantage, 
contribute to its pages, the amount of matter on hand being still but 
seldom equal to the monthly demand. 
The Council also take this opportunity of thanking those persons, 
especially the Committee of the Birmingham Natural History and 
Microscopical Society, to whose kindness they owe the illustrations 
with which the “ Midland Naturalist ” has been recently enriched. 
The principal articles published in this Journal since the last report 
are as follows : — 
The Preservation of Native Plants, by A. W. Wills; Botanical 
Notes in connection with the Peterborough Meeting, by Rev. M. J. 
Berkeley and G. C. Druce; Address of the President, Rev. J. J. S. 
Perowne, on the Repairs to Peterborough Cathedral; Study of a Lichen 
from Oban, by W. H. Wilkinson ; Lunularia vulgaris , by Rev. H. P. 
Reader ; On the Mammals of Leicestershire, by F. T. Mott; On the 
Zygnemaceae: a Chapter in the History of Fresh Water Algae, by 
F. Bates; A Fungus Foray in the Middleton District, by J. E. 
Baguall; Penmaenmawr, by T. H. Waller; Report on Marine 
