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situated between Chingford and High Beach ; also that I have 

 been obhged to leave the district from time to time for short 

 periods, which may account for the fact that I was unable to 

 find some of the catkin galls such as Andvicus pilosiis and 

 A. nndus, althougli the corresponding agamic generation 

 A. fccundatrix was abundant ; and I also found A. malpighi later 

 on in the year. 



In the foregoing account I have perhaps added little to 

 our knowledge of the oak gall-making Cynipidae. My object, 

 however, has been, not only to make a list of the oak-galls I have 

 met with in Epping Forest, and to add certain species to those 

 which have already been found in Essex, but also to put what 

 we already know in such a concise form as may stimulate future 

 research by showing how exceedingly interesting the subject is, 

 and how wide a field for inquiry and study remains still 

 unexplored. 



THE CORRESPONDING SOCIETIES'COMMITTEE 



OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION, 



SOUTHPORT, 1903. 



REPORT OF THE CLUB'S DELEGATE. 



F. W. RUDLER, F.G.S., President E.F.C., Secretary oi the Conference of Delegates. 



[ Read Xovemher 28///, 1903.] 



EXCEPTIONAL interest attached to the Conference of 

 Delegates this year, inasmuch as the President of the 

 Association, Sir Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S., had under- 

 taken to address the meeting on the necessity of organising 

 Science, wath special reference to the question whether the 

 British Association could help in any way, and if so, whether 

 the Corresponding Societies could take any part therein. This 

 address was the outcome of recent activity on the part of the 

 Corresponding Societies Committee. Last year that Committee 

 approached the Council of the British Association with the view of 

 securing some improvement in the means of communicating with 

 the local Societies so as to aid more satisfactorily the work of some 

 of the scientific Committees appointed by the Association. The 



