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A letter was read from Mr. G. B. Pearson, who had spent a three 

 weeks collecting trip in Jamaica in the latter part of 1919, 

 communicated by Mr. Sperring. 



Reports of the Field Meetings were read. (See pages 57, GO, G3, 67.) 

 Mr. R. Adkin communicated the Report of the British Associa- 

 tion FOR THB Advancement of Science : Conference of Delegates- 

 of Corresponding Societies, 1919. — I have to report that I attended 

 the meetings of the above Conference on Thursday, September 11th, 

 and Friday, 12th, at the Municipal College, Bournemouth, as your 

 delegate. The President of the Conference, Lord Montagu of 

 Beaulieu, read an address on " Roads and the History of Locomo- 

 tion," in which he demonstrated beyond question the vital 

 importance of maintaining the roads of this country in good going 

 order as a means of communication between town and town and 

 village, and so forth. Questions brought forward for discussion 

 were " Atmospheric Pollution of Towns," introduced by Dr. J. S. 

 Owens ; " The Measurement of Rain," by Mr. de Carle Salter ; and 

 " The Importance of including Geography in the Curriculum of 

 Higher Education," by Mr. T. W, F. Parkinson : three very diverse 

 and interesting subjects, but I fear that none of them come within 

 the activities of the majority of our members. I apprehend that of 

 more interest to them will be the work of Section D, Zoology, 

 where many papers of the utmost importance were read, and which 

 I hope to bring to the notice of our members, in detail, so soon as 

 the annual volume of the Association is published. 



