Doncaster Microscopical Society

A general meeting of this society was held at the rooms in High Street on Wednesday evening last, the Rev. Canon Brock (president) in the chair.

The secretary, in his report, stated that the progress of the society was satisfactory, 38 members having joined since it was started.

The old committee was re-elected with the addition of two new members.

It was proposed, and carried unanimously. That in future the meetings be held during a period extending fro October to May, in place of the whole year, as originally decided.

It was also resolved that the coming session should open with a conversazione early in October, and the committee was empowered to make the necessary arrangements for carrying out this object.

[Doncaster, Nottingham & Lincoln Gazette, 24 September 1880]

Also, in this addition.

The weather and the Harvest

The disastrous weather of last week, and the almost equally un-propituous [sic] this, is causing serious injury to the latter harvest. A large breadth of land yet remains to be gathered, and with many, the result this year will do nothing to compensate for the deficiency of 1879.

The floods have proved very destructive, and but for the works of the Dun Drainage, this town would have suffered quite as much as it did in 1872.

Although the provisions which have been made under the extended parliamentary powers have failed to accomplish all they were designed for, yet it must be admitted that they have tended to mitigate much of the loss which always followed such an excessive downpour as we have had during the last fortnight.

On many farms a mere abatement of rent will not suffice, for on these the crops will again fail to pay working expenses.