Archived Newspaper Cuttings

1880 
1880, March 3 – Ordinary Meeting (“The Microscope and how to use it”) (The Doncaster, Nottingham and Lincoln Gazette)
1880, April 9 – 3rd Ordinary Meeting (“The origin of chalk, as shown by the microscope”) (The Doncaster, Nottingham and Lincoln Gazette)
1880, June 4 – Ordinary Meeting (“On the structures of the organs of locomotion in man”) (The Doncaster, Nottingham and Lincoln Gazette)
Session One (1880-81)
1880, September 24 – 1st General Meeting (The Doncaster, Nottingham and Lincoln Gazette)
1880, October 8 – Conversazione (The Doncaster, Nottingham and Lincoln Gazette)
1880, October 22 – 1st Meeting (“Mounting Microscopic Objects”) (The Doncaster, Nottingham and Lincoln Gazette)
1880, November 19 – 6th Ordinary Meeting (“Germs”) (The Doncaster, Nottingham and Lincoln Gazette)
1880, December 17 – Ordinary Meeting (“Foraminifera”) (The Doncaster, Nottingham and Lincoln Gazette)

1881
1881, January 21 – 8th Ordinary Meeting (“Lower forms of animal life”) (The Doncaster, Nottingham and Lincoln Gazette)
1881, February 15 – 9th Ordinary Meeting (“The structures of the blow fly“) (The Doncaster, Nottingham and Lincoln Gazette)
1881, March 18 – 9th Ordinary Meeting (“Cellular Tissues of plants”) (The Doncaster, Nottingham and Lincoln Gazette copy)
1881, April 29 – Ordinary Meeting (“Staining of wood samples”) (The Doncaster, Nottingham and Lincoln Gazette copy)
1881, May 27 – Ordinary Meeting (Two papers on Parasites on Pork) (The Doncaster, Nottingham and Lincoln Gazette)
Session Two (1881-82)
1881, October 14 – 2nd Annual General Meeting (The Doncaster, Nottingham and Lincoln Gazette)
1881, October 28 – Ordinary Meeting (“Electricity) (The Doncaster, Nottingham and Lincoln Gazette)
1881, November 2 – Ordinary Meeting (“The leaves of plants”) (Doncaster, Nottingham & Lincoln Gazette)
1881, December 2 – Special General Meeting (Doncaster Gazette)
1881, December 14 – Ordinary Meeting (“Climate and Disease”) (Doncaster Gazette copy)

1882
1882, January 20 – Ordinary Meeting (“Physical Characters of Water”) (The Doncaster Gazette)
1882, March 8 – Ordinary Meeting (“Diatoms”) (The Doncaster Gazette)
1882, April 4 – Ordinary Meeting (Cell Life) (The Doncaster Gazette)
1882, May 3 – The Application of Photograph to the Microscope
1882, October 27 – Conversazione at the Corn Exchange (The Doncaster Chronicle)
1882, November 3 – Ordinary Meeting (“Science in Relation to Education”) (Doncaster Gazette)
1882, November 17 – Ordinary Meeting (History of our Coal Fields (The Doncaster Gazette)
1882, November 19 – Ordinary Meeting (“The Electric Light”)
1882, December 29 – Announcement of Gilchrist Lectures (The Doncaster Gazette)

1883
1883, January 31 – The second Gilchrist Lecture. (The Doncaster Reporter)
1883, 2 February – An Hour with the Microscope (2nd Gilchrist Lecture) (The Doncaster Gazette)
1883, March 21 – Gilchrist Lecture (The Doncaster Reporter)
1883, October 12 –Doncaster Microscopical and General scientific Society 4th Ordinary Meeting (Doncaster Gazette)
1883, November 9, “The Telescope and its Revelations” (Doncaster Gazette)
1883, November 30 – Doncaster Microscopical Society Exhibition Meeting (Doncaster Gazette)

1884
1884, July 6 – Juvenile Naturalists’ and Scientific Society, Conversazione (Doncaster Chronicle)
1884, May 2 – Doncaster Microscopical Society (Doncaster Gazette)
1884, October 8 – Doncaster Microscopical and General scientific Society Annual Meeting (Doncaster Gazette)
1884, October 22 – Exhibition Meeting
1884, November 12 – Ordinary Meeting (“An Analysis of Water”)
1884, December 12 – Ordinary Meeting – (“Plant Life”) (Doncaster Chronicle)
1884, December 12 – Ordinary Meeting (Plant Life) (Doncaster Gazette)

1885
1885, January 10 – Ordinary Meeting (“The Geology of Doncaster”)
1885, February 25 – Ordinary Meeting (“Food and its Varieties and Value”)
1885, April 8 – Ordinary Meeting (“Animal Life in its Lowest Forms, part 4”)
1885, April 17 – Doncaster Microscopical and General scientific Society Ordinary Meeting (Doncaster Chronicle)
1885, December 18 – Doncaster Microscopical and General scientific Society Annual Meeting (Doncaster Chronicle)

1886
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 (Doncaster Chronicle)
1885, December 18 – Doncaster Microscopical and General scientific Society Annual Meeting (Doncaster Chronicle)

1887
1887, October 28 – Doncaster Microscopical and General scientific Society Annual Meeting (Doncaster Chronicle)

1888
1888, May 16 – Doncaster Microscopical and General scientific Society Ordinary Meeting (Doncaster Chronicle)

1889
1899, November 1 – Doncaster Microscopical and Scientific Society Annual Meeting

1890
1890, January 31 – Microscopical Conversazione at Brown’s Rooms (Doncaster Chronicle)
1890, May 16 – Lecture on Ants (Doncaster Chronicle)
1890, November 12 – Doncaster Microscopical and General scientific Society Ordinary Meeting
1890, November 26 – Ordinary Meeting (“First Principles of Entomology”)

1891
1891, January 30 – Doncaster Microscopical and General Scientific Society (Doncaster Chronicle)
1890, Winter – Exhibition Meeting in the Glyn Hotel
1891, March 27 – Microscopical Society (Doncaster Chronicle)
1891, October 30 – Doncaster Microscopical and General Scientific Society Annual Meeting (Chronicle)

1892
1892, January 22 –Electricity & Magnetism (Doncaster Chronicle)
1892, October 7 – Doncaster Microscopical and General Scientific Society Annual Meeting (Doncaster Chronicle)

1893

1894
1894, October 18 – Conversazione at the Mansion House [contained in Minute book 3]
1894, November 28 – Doncaster Microscopical and General Scientific Society [contained in Minute book 3]

1895
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
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
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
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]

1899

1900
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
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
1902,January 23 – A Report of Conversazione in the Mansion House [contained in Minute book 4]

1903
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
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
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
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
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
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]

1909
1909, January 27 – Prehistoric Man by T. Sheppard, F.G.S. [contained in Minute book 5]
1909, February 10 – Doncaster Scientific Society Meeting [contained in Minute book 5]
1909, February 24 – Discovery at Brodsworth by H. Culpin [contained in Minute book 5]
1909, March 10 – Lecture on “Sense Training.” [contained in Minute book 5]
1909, May 28 – Excursion to Hatfield Moor and Sandtoft [contained in Minute book 5]
1909, May 28 – Various Society recorder’s reports [contained in Minute book 5]
1909, May 28 – The Leader in the Don. Gazette “A Local Naturalist” referring to Dr. Corbett [contained in Minute book 5]
1909, Oct 17 – A Lecture on Norway [contained in Minute book 5]
1909, Nov 19 – Fish & Fishing [contained in Minute book 5]
1909, Nov 24 – The Singing Habits of Birds [contained in Minute book 5]
1909, Nov 24 – Proposed Area for the Doncaster museum [contained in Minute book 5]
1909, Dec 8 – A Naturist’s Tour of the Far West [contained in Minute book 5]

1910
1910, Jan 26 – The Coal Measures Rocks [contained in Minute book 5]
1910, Feb 9 – The Setting & Use of the Transit Instrument [contained in Minute book 5]
1910, Mar 9 – 110 Days Alpine Visit  [contained in Minute book 5]
1910, Apr 15 – The Life History and Structure of Sme Local Mosses by T. C. Thrupp [contained in Minute book 5]
1910, Jun 18 – The Isle of Lindholme & The Lore of Lindholme [contained in Minute book 5]
1910, Jul 9 – Visit to Bentley Colliery [contained in Minute book 5]
1910, Jul 9 – From Shirley Pool to Bentley Colliery [contained in Minute book 5]
1910, Jul 14 – Martin Beck Wood [contained in Minute book 5]
1910, Oct 19 – Archaeological Engineering by F. O. Kirby [contained in Minute book 5]
1910, Oct 26 – The Wild Animals of England by E. Phillips [contained in Minute book 5]
1910, Nov 23- Science and Music by W. E. Sanderson [contained in Minute book 5]

1911
1911, Feb 22 – Local Limestones by H Culpin [contained in Minute book 5] 2 copies
1911, Nov 1 – Principles of Heredity by Dr. G. J. Langley [contained in Minute book 5]

1912
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.