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MIDLAND UNION OF NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETIES. 
(Mancliester), Mersss. W. R. Hughes, F.L.S., T. H. Waller, B.A., 
B.Sc., W. P. Marshall, M.I.C.E., J. Levick, J. Morley, C. R. Robinson, 
J, Rabone, J. Insley, C. J. Watson, J, F. Goode, C. J. Woodward, 
B.Sc. (Birmingham), C. Cochrane and H. Pearce, F.L.S. (Stourbridge), 
S. J. Newman and B. Thompson, F.G.S., F.C.S. (Northampton), F. E. 
Lott (Burton), F. T. Mott, F.R.G.S. (Leicester), A. Stephenson, M.D. 
(Nottingham), W. Mathews, C.E. and E. Wheeler, C.E. (Peterborough), 
Dr. F. W. Crick (Bedford), W. Madeley (Dudley), B. Sturges Dodd 
W. Watchorne and T. Goldsmith (Nottingham), the Hon. Secs, to 
the Union, Messrs. W. G. Davy, of Tamworth, and W. J. Harrison, 
F.G.S., of Birmingham, besides a large number of local members 
and friends. 
The minutes of the Nottingham Meeting having been read and con¬ 
firmed, the President delivered an Address dealing principally with 
the history and archaeology of Tamworth and its neighbourhood. 
This Address will appear in the August Number of the “ Midland 
Naturalist.” 
Mr. F. T. Mott, F.R.G.S., proposed, Mr. T. H. Waller, B.A., 
B.Sc., seconded, and it was resolved “ That the thanks of this meeting 
be given to Egbert de Hamel, Esq., for his able and interesting 
address, and that it be printed in the ‘ Midland Naturalist.’ ” 
Mr. W. J. Harrison then read the 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
In accordance with a resolution passed at the last annual meeting 
at Nottingham, the report of the Council for 1882 was (in addition to 
its appearance in the organ of the Union, “The Midland Naturalist”) 
printed in a separate form, with much additional information, and 
circulated widely among the members of the various Societies. 
By another resolution the Hon. Secretary was empowered to send 
a copy (in bronze) of the Darwin Medal to the family of the late 
Mr. Charles Darwin, in whose honour the medal was instituted. This 
has been done, and the following kind reply has been received from the 
present head of the Darwin family :— 
Basset, Southampton, December 14th, 1882. 
Dear Sir,—I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your letter and 
the copies of the last report of the Midland Union of Natural History Societies, 
together with the bronze medal of my late father. Will you be kind enough, 
when you have an opportunity, to express to the Council and Members of the 
Union the sincere thanks of my family and myself for their kind thought in 
sending us this copy of the medal. I am pleased to say that it is a striking like¬ 
ness of my father. My father felt much the honour that was done to him by 
the foundation of this medal, and was much interested in the success of the 
Union It would have given him sincere pleasure to know of the good work 
done by those gentlemen to whom the medal has been awarded. This medal 
will be placed with others belonging to my late father, and will always be much 
valued by my family. 
Thanking you for the part you have taken in the matter, 
I am. Dear Sir, yours faithfullj", 
W. Erasmus Darwin. 
W. Jerome Harrison, Esq., F.G.S. 
The subject assigned for the Darwin Prize for 1883 was 
“ Archseology,” and the Council have to report, with regret, that no 
papers on that subject have been contributed to “ The Midland 
Naturalist ” within the specified time; the medal for 1883 cannot, 
