Mr. Horace T. Brown, who represented the Society at the Confer- 

 ence of Delegates of Corresponding Societies, which was held by the 

 British Association at Birmingham, gave a brief statement of the work 

 accomplished by the Conference, and detailed some of the questions 

 which arose at the meeting, and which were likely to be of local interest. 



Captain Galton explained that the object of the Conference of 

 Delegates w^s to bring the Corresponding Societies into direct com- 

 munication with all the Committees of the British Association, to which 

 the local Societies, or their individual members might render assistance. 

 In order to further this end, it was resolved to send a list of the several 

 Committees to the local Societies. 



Among other subjects which came up at the Conference was the 

 suggestion that persons in the habit of recording the rainfall, or any 

 other meteorological phenomena, should forward the results of their 

 observations to the Royal Meteorological Society, and that a similar 

 course should be adopted in noting the time of the flowering of plants 

 and the first appearance of insects. 



It is possible that the Burton Society may be able to contribute also 

 to the history of the glacial deposits of our district by communicating 

 observations upon these deposits to the Erratic Block Committee of the 

 Association. 



The question of the destruction of native plants had been also 

 brought before the Conference. Many of our native plants are becoming 

 exterminated by over zealous collectors, and it seems desirable, in the 

 event of our Society publishing a Flora of the District, that it should 

 adopt a plan initiated by the Leicester Society of omitting the names 

 of the exact localities where any very rare plants may be found. 



The Report of the Transaction Sub-committee was then read bv Dr. 

 G. H. Morris. 



In accordance with the Report passed at the last Annual General 

 Meeting, a Sub-committee consisting of Revd. C. F. Thornewill, Messrs. 

 H. T. Brown, J. I". Harris, F. E. Lott, T. C. Martin, and Dr. G. H. 

 Morris, was appointed to take into consideration and carry out the 

 publication of the Society's Transactions. The Sub-committee appointed 

 Dr. Morris, Hon. Secretary. 



It was decided by the Committee that the following Reports and 

 Papers should be included in the Transactions, and the gentlemen 



