MEETING OF NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETIES. 
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MIDLAND UNION OF NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETIES. 
The Tenth Annual Meeting of the Midland Union of 
Natural History Societies was held on July 6th and 7th at 
Malvern. The Meeting was a fortnight later than has been 
usual, owing to the Jubilee celebrations, which rendered the 
earlier date unsuitable. To this circumstance must be partly 
ascribed the small attendance, as several who would other¬ 
wise have been present were away from home. 
The Council met in the Drill Hall, Albert Road, at 12 
noon, and after receiving the usual reports adopted the Annual 
Report for presentation to the General Meeting. 
The report on the subject of the Darwin Medal stated 
that only one paper in the specified subject (Archaeology) 
had been submitted, but the Adjudicators unanimously 
considered it worthy of the prize, and the Council accordingly 
awarded the medal to Mr. E. W. Badger, M.A., for his paper 
on “ The Monumental Brasses of Warwickshire.” 
A notification was received from the Secretary of the British 
Association that the Midland Union has been retained upon 
the list of the Corresponding Societies of the Association, 
and requesting that a delegate to the Manchester Meeting- 
should be appointed; and the Council appointed H. Wilson, 
Esq., the Secretary of the Malvern Field Club, as delegate. 
Mr. H. J. Eunson, the delegate from Northampton, invited 
the Union to meet in Northampton in 1888, and it was 
resolved to recommend the General Meeting to accept the 
invitation. 
The attention of the Council was called to the very small 
use which the Societies composing the Union make of the 
Midland Naturalist for the publication of their proceedings, 
and the Hon. Sec. was directed to send a circular to the 
Societies on the subject, and to urge them to a more general 
subscription to it. The numbers taken by most of the 
Societies are extremely small, and the Council believes that 
the journal is worthy of much more support from our various 
Clubs and Societies than it at present obtains. 
The Annual General Meeting 
was held in the Drill Hall at 3 p.m. After the minutes 
of the Shrewsbury Meeting had been read and confirmed, the 
President, Rev. G. E. Mackie, M.A., delivered an address on 
the “ Difficulties of Field Clubs,” with suggestions as to how 
these may best be met, especially urging that the fundamental 
idea that the meetings are really for the prosecution of 
