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difficult to obtain members able and willing to serve. And it was a 

 great advantage, he added, to the local workers to have their papers 

 catalogued in the Annual Report of the British Association and pre- 

 served at the office of the Association, where they might be con- 

 sulted by many who would otherwise remain ignorant of their 

 existence. Each Corresponding Society, also, had the Report of 

 the British Association presented to it in exchange for its own Pro- 

 ceedings. He regretted that the Association had not been able to 

 obtain greater facilities from the railway companies for members 

 travelling to and from meetings of the Association, and remarked, in 

 conclusion, that the local authorities had placed the room in which 

 they were then meeting at the disposal of the delegates, as a place in 

 which they might meet for talk or discussion at any time. 



Among the committees of the British Association is one to 

 consider " The Application of Photography to the Elucidation of 

 Meteorological Phenomena."' Mr. Symons, Chairman of this Com- 

 mittee, remarked that 467 photographs had been sent in. On this 

 account he did not press for more, but the Committee would be glad 

 to have additional photographs of lightning. 



Mr. A. S. Reid, a member of the " Committee for the Collection, 

 Preservation, and Systematic Registration of Photographs of 

 Geological Interest," said that they had received more than forty 

 new photographs during the past year, making the total collection 

 846 ; they were all British. Tne appeal to the Corresponding 

 Societies had been more successful than in any previous year. He 

 had, however, to report that unfortunately many prints had been 

 sent in without the names of the Societies sending them, that of the 

 photographer, or of the place photographed. 



Mr. P. F. Kendall, Secretary to the " Committee for Recording 

 the Position, etc., of the Erratic Blocks of England, Wales, and 

 Ireland," remarked that very few of the Corresponding Societies had 

 sent any information. The Committee had been in existence 

 twenty-one years, but there were whole counties abounding in 

 errat'c blocks from which not a single report had ever been sent. 

 There were thus great gaps in their information which could only 

 be filled by photographs and reports from quarters which had not 

 hitherto responded to their appeal. 



There must be many unrecorded blocks in Essex, the nature and 

 position of which should be carefully noted by our local observers 

 and the result sent to Mr. Kendall. 



