138 



(e) To call the attention of Scientific Societies to the necessity for 

 retaining in all offprints from their publications the original number- 

 ing of the pages, and of providing full reference to the date, place, 

 and title of the publication from which they are extracted. 



(f) To call the attention of the Council to the value of the 

 Kegional Exhibit arranged for the Hull meeting by the Yorkshire 

 Naturalists' Union, and to suggest that it is desirable that such an 

 exhibit should if possible be included regularly in the programme of 

 the Annual Meeting. 



(g) To inform the Conference of Delegates that the present 

 practice of the Association is, to present a copy of the Annual 

 Report to each Society sending a Delegate to the Conference, recog- 

 nising the practice by which one Delegate sometimes represents 

 more than one Society, and to recommend that in future no delegate 

 be entitled to more than one copy, however many societies he may 

 represent ; but that if any Society desires a copy of the Report, it 

 may be supplied at the reduced price of 10s. 



(h) To apply to the Committee of Recommendations for £40, for 

 the preparation of the Report of the Conference and the Annual 

 Bibliography. 



(i) To recommend that the Kent's Cavern Coiiinuttee be not reap- 

 pointed. 



2. Communications from the Sectional Couimittees of the 

 Association. 



(a) Section C. recommends, as a subject for systematic research 

 by the Corresponding Societies, the study of Peat Beds and -Siib- 

 viert/ed Forests. 



(b) Section H. commends to the Conference the proposal for an 

 International Institute of Archaeolof/ij in Rome, in special regard to 

 its scheme for a bibliography of archaeological literature. 



(c) Section K. calls the attention of the Conference to its Com- 

 mittee on a Primary Botanical Survey in Wales, which desires local 

 help in its researches." 



" III conclusion, I should like to say that I propose to present to 

 the Society, on publication shortly, the "Report" of the Hull meet- 

 ing of the Association, so that it may be placed in our library, and 

 thus be available for reference by our members, many of whom 

 might not otherwise have an opportunity for seeing it. It will 

 contam full reports, not only of the Conference of Corresponding 

 Societies, but of the matters discussed by the various sections of the 

 Association, many of them being of vital importance to an up-to- 



