xx peoceedings, 



6. " Report on the Conference of Delegates to the 

 British Association in London in 1905." By Jolin 

 Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G-.S., etc. 



The meeting of tlie British Association having this year been 

 held in South Africa, it was considered by the Corresponding 

 Societies Committee tliat it would be the most convenient course 

 to hold the Conference of Delegates in London. The Coimcil 

 having approved of this, the opportimity was taken of a meeting 

 of the General Committee on October 31, which the Delegates of 

 Affiliated Societies have the right to attend, to hold the Con- 

 ference on that and the preceding day. 



The Conference was held in the Rooms of the Linnean Society, 

 Burlington House, and both the meetings were well attended. 

 On the evening of the first meeting the Delegates were hospitably 

 entertained at dinner by the Royal Societies Club. 



Both meetings of the Conference were presided over by 

 Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S. The Corresponding Societies 

 Committee was represented, amongst others, by the following 

 members of our Society :— Dr. H. R. Mill, Mr. F. W. Rudler 

 (Secretary), Mr. W. Whitaker, F.R.S. (Chairman of the Com- 

 mittee), and your Delegate, who contributes this report. 



First Meeting. 



The Report of the Corresponding Societies Committee stated 

 that there would henceforth be two classes of local Societies 

 eligible for relationship with the British Association. One of 

 these, to be called Affiliated Societies, would consist, as at 

 present, of such Societies as undertake local scientific investiga- 

 tion and publish the results, and the other, to be called 

 Associated Societies, of those foi-med to encourage the study of 

 science, which have been founded for at least three years, and 

 number not less than fifty members. An AffiHated Society must 

 appoint as its Delegate a Memher of the Association, who will 

 for the meeting he attends be a Member of the G-eneral Com- 

 mittee. An Associated Society may appoint either a Memher or 

 Associate of the British Association, who will have all the rights 

 of a Delegate of an Affiliated Society except that of membership 

 of the General Committee. Our Society, it is scarcely necessary 

 to say, belongs to the first class : the Watford Camera Club has 

 been elected into the second class of Corresponding Societies. 



The Report also dealt with the question of the establishment 

 of a ' Journal of the Con*esponding Societies,' which was deemed 

 to be impracticable, and with that of reduced railway-fares to 

 members of local Scientific Societies, etc. 



The Chairman, in his opening Address, dealt mainly with the 

 work, and play, of local Scientific Societies. He said that he 

 began his scientific career as a member of the small Society at 

 one time flourishing in his native town, and he then learned how 

 to write his observations in a logical form. None but those who 



