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(2 ) Secretaries of Societies should always keep their Delegate posted up in matters which they 

 wished brought before the Conference, and should take care that all papers and ini'orma 

 tion referring to the Conference are sent on to their Delesrate. 

 (3) Societies could do work of great value by watching the well-sinking or other boring going 

 on in their districts, keeping records of the same, and, where possible, preparing and 

 publishing sections. These valuable details remained buried m contractors' note-books, 

 unless unearthed by the energy of the Local Societies. 

 Alter a prolonged discussion the (."onference appointed a small Sub-Committee to discuss Mr. 

 fievan's paper and to prepare a resolution thereon, which should be put to the next meeting. 



The second meeting of the Conference took place at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, September 17th. I 

 attended the Conference as your Delegate, and also as the accredited representative of the Committee 

 of Section C (Geology) of the British Association, having been appointed by the Committee on Monday. 



The first business was the Report of the Sub-Committee appointed to consider Mr. J. O. Bevan's 

 suggestions, and draw up a resolution. 'I'his was presented by Professor W.W. Watts, and will be laid 

 before you in the Iprinted report of the Conference. In substance it recommended that the Local 

 Societies should be asked to engage themselves to carry out systematic work on some of the following 

 subjects, details of the methods to be adopted being obtainable from the Secretaries of the various 

 existing British Association Committees (names and addresses will be found in the Annual Bepoit of 

 the B,A. in your Library). 



The subjects enumerated in the resolutions were as follows : — 

 The Registration of Type Specimens. 



Coast Erosion. 



Record of Bore-holes. 



Underground Waters. 



Erratic Blocks. 



Underground Fauna. 



Geological Photographs. 



Photographic Record of Plant Life. 



Systematic Archaeological, Ethnographical, and Botanic Surveys of Districts. 



Variations in Course of Rivers. 



Variations in Shape of Lakes. 



This resolution was adopted unanimously, and, pending your receipt of the printed report, I 

 would urge on the Society the great value of its systeiratising its work on lines already adopted and 

 published by British Association Committees on the above subjects. Sub-Committees might be formed 

 out of members interested in some of the above subjects ; the Secretary of the Sub-Committee should 

 communicate with the Secretary of the British Association Committee on that particular subject and 

 obtain from him details of what is wanted to be done and hoiv to do it. The day of reading of SScientijic 

 Papers at meetings of Local Societies is past. What is wanted now is systematic work on definite 

 lines for the collection and pre=;ervation of valuable records that are either fast disappearing or are of 

 use for the future determination of, at present, unsolved pioblems. A great number of the Local 

 Societies have for many years been working on these lines, and most invaluable records have been 

 collected and transmitted to the British Associaton Committee for comparison and report. As a 

 member of the Geological Photographs Committee of the British Association I have had ample oppor- 

 tunity of seeing the valuable work that has been done by Local Societies on these particular lines, and 

 I wish I could congratulate the East Kent Society on something of the kind. There is vast oppor- 

 tunity in your district for work, systematic work, not desultory individual effort, on some of the subjects 

 mentioned above. What is wanted is the " upheaval " to prevent the Society cutting down, like the 

 river system, to a " base-level" and there remaining. The best methods of work, the means to be 

 adopted, the ends to be aimed at, are already laid do^vn for us by experts in each subject ; it remains 

 for us to take advantage of these and so make our Society of some practical use, and fully justify its 

 position as one of the Corresponding Societies of the British Association. 



The next business before the Conference was to receive suggestions and reports from the 

 Delegates from the Committees of the various Sections of the Association. 



The Chairman called for representation of the Section in alphabetical order. 



Section A (Mathematical and Physical Science). — No remarks. 



Section B (Chemistry). — No remarks. 



Section C (Geology). — Mr. A. S. Reid, representing the Committee, informed the Delegates 

 that they had no new subjects to put before them, but begged them to keep up their very valuable 

 work fur the Committees already in existence, e.g.. Geological Photographs, Erratic Blocks. Movements 

 of Underground Water, etc., etc. As both Professor Watts (Secretary of the Geological Photographs 

 Committee) and Professor Kendal (Secretary of the Erratic Blocks Committee) were present, he asked 

 them to say a few words about their work. 



Professor Watts spoke of the immense help given by various Local Societies, which he named, 

 and showed the first album of reproductions of geological photographs, with notes, which is now nearly 

 ready for publication. 



As there are no erratic blocks in East Kent, I will not report Professor Kendal's remarks. 



Section D (Zoology). — Mr. Denney, the representative, had no remarks to make. 



