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Mr. A. S. Eeid, M.A., F.G.S. was the delegate of tlie 

 Society at the Meeting of the British Association at Manchester, 

 and he sent in a report of the proceedings of the Committee of 

 the Corresponding Societies. In this report, which was read at 

 the Committee Meeting on Oct. 1st, and also at the monthly 

 Meeting on Oct. 15th, he points out the principal matters on 

 which information from local investigators is most needed. 

 Those pertaining to this disti'ict are the annual variation of the 

 temperature of surface water in rivers, estuaries, and lakes ; the 

 habits, construction and features of the life history of plants ; 

 and a record of camps and prehistoric remains. 



Your Committee would earnestly ask members to do all they 

 can to collect information on these and otlier points, and then 

 communicate freely with the Society. The papers published in 

 the transactions are carefully noted by the Committee of the 

 British Association, and a tabulated record made of them for 

 reference. In this way the work of local investigators becomes 

 known all over the country, and workers can see what has been 

 done in other districts. 



The advantages offered by your Society to all who are 

 interested in scientific pursuits are so great, that your Committee 

 cannot but think that there must be many young persons in the 

 the district who would be glad to become members, and there- 

 fore the Committee would urge upon members the duty of making 

 the Society as widely known as possible. 



If members attending the monthly Meetings would ask 

 friends to come with them they would very probably win many 

 new members, and the gentlemen who read papers before the 

 Society, seeing a better attendance, would be encouraged to appear 

 more frequently. 



The Library ought to be much valued by all the members 

 for it now contains a large and well-chosen collection of books on 

 all branches of Natural History. The Committee would respect- 

 fully draw tlie attention of members to Rule 21 by which. 

 " Members are invited to lend books for the use of the Library^ 

 reserving to themselves the full right of ownership. Such books 

 to be under the care of the Committee, and not to be taken from, j 

 the Library." 



