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l>ROCEEDmGS OF SOCIETIES. 
Campbell EvT0N,Esq.,* Ejton Castle; Col. Gatacee, Gatacre Hall; W. OrMsby Gore, Esq., 
M.P-, Porkington Hall; Rt. Hon. Lord Hill, G.C.B., G.C.H., F.H.S., F.Z.S.; Sir Rowland 
Hill, Bart., M.P., F.Z.S.; Lady Hill ; Sir Francis Lawley, Bart., F.H.S., F.Z.S.; Sir Bald¬ 
win Leighton, Bart.; Rt. Rev. the Bishop of Lichfield, D.D., F.R.S.; Rt. Hon. the Earl of 
Lichfield, F.H.S., F.Z.S., Pitchford Hall; C. K. Mainwaring, Esq., Oteley Park; G. A. 
Moultrie, Esq., Aston Hall; B. H. Owen, Esq., Tedsmore Hall; Rt. Hon. the Earl of Powis, 
D.C.L., F.H.S., F.Z.S.; S. A. and J. M. Severne, Esqrs., Wallop Hall; R. A. Slaney, Esq.^f 
Walford Manor; W. H. Slaney, Esq., F.Z.S., Hatton Grange; Sir E. J, Smythe, Bart., Acton 
Burnell. 
At present the meetings of the Society are held in the temporary Shire-hall, 
Shrewsbury, and the apartments dedicated to the museum are so inadequate to 
the purpose, that the committee suggests the propriety of erecting a building for 
the use of the institution. This is, of course, a most desirable object, and, with 
the assistance of the above and other opulent members, surely there could be no 
difficulty in raising the requisite funds. The museum and library appear to be in 
a flourishing state, for which the Society is mainly indebted to the munificent 
donations of some of the members, especially T. B. Barrett, Esq., R. Corbet, 
Esq., T. C. Eytok, Esq., Capt. Hill, Mr. Shaw, Major Wakefield, and the 
Rev. Canon Newline. Probably the donations would be still more numerous 
were there a museum wherein to arrange them.—Some lectures have been 
delivered before the members, and a Fauna and Flora of the county are in pre¬ 
paration, the former by T. C. Eyton, Esq., the latter by W. A. Leighton, Esq. 
DONCASTER LYCEUM. 
Considering the opulence of the county of York, and the number of scientific 
men it contains, we cannot help feeling somewhat disappointed at the printed 
report for the year 1836 of the Lyceum. In reply to this we shall be told, that 
Doncaster is a small town, and that individuals from distant parts cannot be 
expected to join its institutions. This, however, is not the case with Shrews¬ 
bury ; the Society of that town includes members from many other counties, 
some of which contain excellent public museums of a similar nature; and the 
same may be said of the Worcestershire Society. In general, the gentry of the 
county are among the foremost to come forward and assist these institutions, 
and there must be some reason for their not doing so in the present instance. 
The principal reason we conceive to be, as we have elsewhere observed, the too 
great attention paid by the Lyceum to Politics. A large number of the members 
are quarterly*, and we suspect that many of them enter the Society merely for 
* Author of A History of the Rarer British Birds. 
f Author of An Outline of the Smaller British Birds, a book written in an extremely pleasant 
spirit. 
X Quarterly members pay 10s. per annum—annual members ifL 
