Archived Newspaper Cuttings

Archived Newspaper Cuttings

1880, March 3 – Ordinary Meeting (“The Microscope and how to use it”)
1881, December 14 – Ordinary Meeting (“Climate and Disease”)
1882, March 8 – Ordinary Meeting (“Diatoms”)
1882, May 3 – The Application of Photograph to the Microscope
1882, October 27 – Conversazione at the Corn Exchange (The Doncaster Chronicle)
1882, November 19 – Ordinary Meeting (“The Electric Light”)
1883, January 31 – The second Gilchrist Lecture. (The Doncaster Reporter)
1883, March 21 – Gilchrist Lecture (The Doncaster Reporter)
1884, October 22 – Exhibition Meeting
1884, November 12 – Ordinary Meeting (“An Analysis of Water”)
1884, December 12 – Ordinary Meeting – (“Plant Life”)
1885, January 10 – Ordinary Meeting (“The Geology of Yorkshire”)
1885, February 25 – Ordinary Meeting (“Food and its Varieties and Value”)
1885, April 8 – Ordinary Meeting (“Animal Life in its Lowest Forms, part 4”)
1886, January 13 – Ordinary Meeting (“Heat, what it is and what it does”)
1886, March 10 – Ordinary Meeting (“Our Iron Roads and how they are made”)
1886, March 24 – Ordinary Meeting (“Photo Micrographs”)
1886, April 7 – Ordinary Meeting (“The Transformation of Insects”)
1885, March 6 – Conversazione at Mansion House
1885, March 6 – Conversazione at Mansion House (The Doncaster Chronicle)
1890, November 26 – Ordinary Meeting (“First Principles of Entomology”)
1890, Winter – Exhibition Meeting in the Glyn Hotel

1894, November 28 – Doncaster Microscopical and General Scientific Society [contained in Minute book 3]
1895, May 1 – The Retouching and General Improvements of Negatives by Mr. Whaley [contained in Minute book 3]
1895, October 18 – Doncaster Microscopical and General Scientific Society [contained in Minute book 3]
1895, November 6 – Doncaster Microscopical and General Scientific Society [contained in Minute book 3]
1895, November 12 – Doncaster Microscopical and General Scientific Society (Chronicle) [contained in Minute book 3]
1895, December 4 – Doncaster Microscopical and General Scientific Society (Chronicle) [contained in Minute book 3]
1895, December 18 – Doncaster Microscopical and General Scientific Society [contained in Minute book 3]
1896, January 15 – Doncaster Microscopical and General Scientific Society (Chronicle) [contained in Minute book 3]
1896, January 29 – Doncaster Microscopical and General Scientific Society [contained in Minute book 3]
1896, February 26 – Doncaster Microscopical and General Scientific Society [contained in Minute book 3]
1896, March 11 – Doncaster Microscopical and General Scientific Society [contained in Minute book 3]
1896, March 25 – Doncaster Microscopical and General Scientific Society [contained in Minute book 3]
1896, April 15 – Doncaster Microscopical and General Scientific Society [contained in Minute book 3]
1896, June 18 – Doncaster Microscopical and General Scientific Society [contained in Minute book 3]
1896, November 25 – Scientific Exhibition (Doncaster Gazette) [contained in Minute book 3]
1897, October 27 – Conversazione at the Mansion House (Doncaster Chronicle) [contained in Minute book 3]
1897, November 24 – Electricity in Vacuo by Mr. Cuttriss (Doncaster Gazette) [contained in Minute book 3]
1898, January 27 – Natural History of Askern Bog by Dr. H. H. Corbett (Doncaster Chronicle) [contained in Minute book 3]
1898, February 9 – Migration of Birds by Mr. Cordeaux (Doncaster Chronicle) [contained in Minute book 3]
1898, February 23 – The Constitution of Matter by A. Abbott, B.A. (Doncaster Gazette) [contained in Minute book 3]
1898, March 9 – Process Work and Illustrations by G. B. Bisat [contained in Minute book 3]
1900, November 14 – Mushrooms & Toadstools by J. Gibbs of Sheffield (Doncaster Gazette) [contained in Minute book 3]
1900, November 28 – The Structure of Agates by Mr. Moore (Doncaster Gazette) [contained in Minute book 3]
1901, February 13 – Early Man in East Yorkshire by T. Sheppard F.G.S. of Hull (Doncaster Gazette) [contained in Minute book 3]
1901, February 23 – A Report on Conservazione and exhibition meeting.(Doncaster Chronicle) [contained in Minute book 3]
1902,January 23 – A Report of Conversazione in the Mansion House [contained in Minute book 4]
1903, October 14 – Local Museums by Mr. Clarkson (Doncaster Chronicle) [contained in Minute book 4]
1903, October 28 – Radium by Messrs. Thomas & Cuttriss (Doncaster Gazette) [contained in Minute book 4]
1903, November 11 – A Theory of the Great Pyramid by T. W. Plant (Doncaster Chronicle) [contained in Minute book 4]
1903, December 18 – The Evolution of the Solar System by Mr. Cuttriss (Doncaster Gazette) [contained in Minute book 4]
1904, January 13 – The Discovery of the Constituent gases of the Atmosphere by Robert Watson, Gas Works Manager [contained in Minute book 4]
1904, March 3 – Diseases of Plants by Dr. English [contained in Minute book 4]
1904, October 26 – How Doncaster is supplied with water by W. H. Crabtree, M.Inst.C.E., the Borough Surveyor and Waterworks Engineer. [contained in Minute book 4]
1905, October 11 – The Purpose & Aims of Scientific Societies by G. H. Greenslade, Yorkshire Institute of the Deaf & Dumb. [contained in Minute book 4]
1905, October 25 – The dispersal of seeds by Dr. H. H. Corbett [contained in Minute book 4]
1905, November 8 – The Measurement of Illumination by Mr. Wilson [contained in Minute book 4]
1905, November 22 – The Wonders of the Telescope by M. W. Whitfield, M.A. Cantab, of London [contained in Minute book 4]
1905, December 13 – The solvent power of water by Dr. J. Mitchell Wilson, of Beverley, the Medical Officer of Health for the East Riding of Yorkshire [contained in Minute book 4]
1906, January 10 – Sewage Purification and Disposal by F. O. Kirby, M. Sc., Borough Surveyor [contained in Minute book 4]
1906, January 13 – An account of the visit of the Doncaster Scientific Society to the Gas Works [contained in Minute book 4]
1906, February 28 – The Churches of the District by H. Culpin [contained in Minute book 4]
1906, March 16 – Weather Forecasting by W. Marriott, assistant Sec. Royal Meteorological Society. [contained in Minute book 5]
1906, October 10 – Ordinary Meeting (“Local Meteorology“) by R. Watson (Doncaster Gazette) [contained in Minute book 5]
1906. November 28 – Ordinary Meeting (“The Origin, Objects & Pleasures of Science“) by C. J. R. McLean, M.D. (Gazette) [contained in Minute book 5]
1907, January 24 – Conversazione (“The Giants Causeway & the Basalts of Antrim”) by Rev. H. Thomas (The Gazette) [contained in Minute book 5]
1907, February 13 – Ordinary Meeting (“Local Rocks recently exposed“) by H. Culpin (Doncaster Chronicle) [contained in Minute book 5]
1907, October 9 – Ordinary Meeting (“The Scientific Aspect of Education“) by G. Grace [contained in Minute book 5]
1908 January 1 – Ordinary Meeting (“Faults and Faulting) by W. S. Bisat [contained in Minute book 5]
1908, April 1 – Marine Beds in the Coal Measures near Doncaster by H. Culpin, The Naturalist [contained in Minute book 5]
1908, October 21 – The Natural History of Rossington Golf Links by Dr. H. H. Corbett [contained in Minute book 5]
1908, November 11 – Roman Cinerary Urn found near Doncaster [contained in Minute book 5]
1908, November 25 – River Pollution and Purification by Mr. J. Corbett of Salford, Borough Engineer [contained in Minute book 5]

1912, February 29 – Conversazione (“The Eden of the Eastern Wave”) by Rev. T. Gough of Retford.

1963, January 24 – Old Doncaster – No. 122

1983, May 23 – Rich, Rare Life on Thorne Moors

2005, January 31 – Celebrating 125 years of Scouring the Land – Doncaster Naturalists’ valuable contribution to environmental history. (contains photos of Pip Seccombe, Dorothy Bramley and Dr. Herbert Corbett.