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devoted services and wishes to record its grateful appreciation of them. 



It is desirable that Members and their friends should have easy 

 access to the Herbarium, but it is clearly impossible that it should be 

 allowed to be consulted in the same way as books in the Library. The 

 Committee has therefore decided that it shall be in the care of 

 a Custodian who will make a report on the collection and the mode of 

 consulting it. 



At the meeting of the British Association held at Oxford in 

 August Mr. A. S. Reid, M.A., F.G.S., represented the Society as a 

 delegate to the Committee of Corresponding Societies. As in former 

 years he has sent in a full and suggestive report in which the following 

 points are especially mentioned. 



A paper was read at the Conference on Local Museums in which 

 much valuable advice was given respecting methods of cataloguing, 

 labelling, and registering specimens, the kind of drawers most suitable, 

 and the best methods of preventing dust in cupboards. 



A resolution was passed at this meeting in the following form : — 

 " That in the opinion of this Conference of Delegates of the 

 '• Corresponding Societies of the British Association, all Local 

 " Natural History Societies should at once communicate with the 

 " Technical Instruction Committee of their County Councils requesting 

 " them to grant money for lectures and specimens to illustrate such 

 " lectures, or for demonstrations by competent persons in the Museum.'' 



The Meteorological Photographs Committee reported that they 

 had collected as many photographs as they required, although they 

 would still be glad to receive photographs showing really abnormal or 

 unusual features. 



The Committee on the Pollution of Air in towns reported some 

 interesting experiments made in Manchester. This Committee is 

 about to issue a Schedule of instructions by which a practical chemist 

 can obtain definite data, and Mr. Reid hopes that the work will be taken 

 up for Canterbury. 



The final report of the Coast Erosion Committee will not be 

 presented till next year, when the final report of the " Underground 

 Waters " Committee will also be presented. 



With regard to Coast Erosion there is still need of continuous 

 observation and Mr. Reid wishes that members, especially those of the 

 Dover Society, may be able to add to the valuable work that has 

 already been done. 



The Geological Photographs Committee reported that 1055 photos 



