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meeting, and to express on behalf of the visitors from other Societies 
here assembled their appreciation of the care and trouble which have 
been taken to give pleasure to the members here assembled, and to 
promote the objects of the Midland Union. 
It was resolved, on the motion of Mr. S. J. Newman, seconded by 
Mr. B. Thompson, F.G.S., F.C.S., “ That the Report be received, 
adopted, and printed in the “ Midland Naturalist.” 
PRESENTATION OF THE DARWIN GOLD MEDAL 
FOR 1882. 
The President then handed the Darwin Gold Medal for Zoology 
to W. P. Marshall, Esq., M.I.C.E., and Professor Milnes Marshall, 
M.A., M.D., D.Sc., &c. (of Owens College, Manchester). 
The receipt of the Medal was acknowledged by Professor Marshall 
in a very able speech, in which he specially called attention to the fact 
that the labours of the great man whose name was associated with 
that Medal were carried on, for the most part, without the aid of 
expensive or complicated apparatus and methods of experiment; the 
cause of Science could be advanced by every worker who possessed a 
love of nature coupled with powers of observation of common things. 
THE MEETING-PLACE FOR 1884. 
A cordial letter of invitation from the Peterborough Natural History 
and Scientific Society was read, and this was ably supported by the 
two delegates from that town who were present—Messrs. Wheeler 
and Mathews. 
On the motion of Horace Pearce, Esq., F.L.S., and Dr. F. W. 
Crick, it was unanimously resolved that the Annual Meeting of the 
Midland Union for 1884 be held at Peterborough. In accordance with 
this vote the Union will next year visit a district entirely new to most 
of its members; a district extremely rich in antiquarian monuments, 
and abounding in attractions for the geologist, the botanist, and the 
entomologist. By this vote too the Union acquires as its new 
President a most eminent divine—the Very Rev. J. J. Stuart Perowne, 
D.D., Dean of Peterborough—one of the foremost members of the 
“ company” by whom the New Testament revision was carried out. 
THE HON. TREASURER’S REPORT. 
Mr. E. de Hamel, who on this occasion filled the dual office of 
President and Treasurer, then submitted the following 
Statement or Accounts, 
which, on the motion of the Rev, O. M. Feilden and Mr. Lott, was 
duly adopted. 
