X PEOCEEDINGS. 



ORBrxAET Meeting, 12th Decejtbee, 1895, at Watford. 



Arthur Sieadling, Esq., M.R.C.S., F.Z.S., President, in the 

 Chair. 



Mr. J. Praser and Miss Rose White were elected Members of the 

 Society. 



Mr. Cecil "W". Lilley, The Chestnuts, Wealdstone, Harrow, was 

 proposed for membership. 



It was announced that the Council, in accordance with the Rules 

 of the Society, had elected Mr. Arthur Stradling as President until 

 the next Anniversaiy Meeting, to fill the vacancy caused by the 

 death of the late President, Mr. Henry Seebohm ; and as a mark of 

 respect for his memory the meeting then adjourned, the following 

 Report being taken as read : — 



Report on the Conferences of Delegates to the British Associa- 

 tion AT Ipswich in 1895. By John Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.Gl.S., 

 P.R.Met.Soc. 



As your Delegate to the Ipswich meeting of the British Asso- 

 ciation, I now present to the Society a report on the Conferences 

 of Delegates of the Corresponding Societies held at that meeting. 



The Conferences were held on the 12th and 17th of September, 

 the first Conference being chiefly devoted to the question of co- 

 operation in meteorological work, and the second as usual to 

 discussion on the work of sectional Committees of the Association 

 in which help may be afforded by provincial scientific societies. 

 Mr. G. J. Symons, F.R.S., presided at the first Conference, and 

 Dr. J. G. Garson at the second. There are four members of our 

 Society on the Corresponding Societies Committee of the British 

 Association, two of whom — Mr. Symons and your Delegate — 

 attended both these Conferences. 



It must be understood that this report is not exhaustive, much 

 that was said being omitted or greatly abbreviated, its object being 

 merely to bring before our Society the subjects discussed which are 

 likely to be of interest to our members, and in the investigation of 

 which they can assist. 



First Conference. 



Meteorological Observations. — The first Conference was opened 

 by the Chairman, Mr. G. J. Symons, F.R.S., with an address on 

 Meteorological Observations, of which I give a rather full abstract. 

 The address was divided under the following headings : — 



1. Meteorological observ^ations in general. 



2. Sea and river temperature. 



3. Earth temperature at shallow and at great depths. 



4. Phonological work. 



5. Early meteorological records. 



6. Records of river and well levels. 



7. Records of floods and the placing of flood-marks. 



