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that our great municipal bodies are appreciating the aid which 
even a comparatively small Society like our own may give in 
helping forward the study of the problems which affect the 
health of our great cities and towns. 
In closing my address to you to-night, may I tender to you 
my thanks for listening to me so long and so patiently, and may 
I express a hope that our Society may prosper during this pre- 
sent year, aud prove of some, even though it is but small, use to 
this town which has given it birth, and to the county at large. 
British Association. 
Report or tHE Merrrinc or REPRESENTATIVES OF CORRESPONDING 
Societies at THE Mertine at Souruport, Srepr. 1908. 
The Committee of the Corresponding Societies, consisting of Messrs. 
W. Whitaker and F. W. Rudler, Sir John Evans, and others, report 
that they recommend that the work entrusted to the Sectional Com- 
mittees, under Rule 10 of the last Report, shall henceforth devolve 
upon the Organizing Committees. The effect of which will be that 
the Organizing Committees of each Section will transmit to the 
Secretaries of Sections, and through them to the Secretaries of the 
Conference of Delegates, any recommendations that the Corresponding 
Societies desire. The Organizing Committees to specify what local 
work can be most usefully undertaken by the separate Corresponding 
Societies. This work the Council of the Association will consider, 
particularly to develop science and scientific education throughout the 
provincial centres. These subjects will be discussed after consideration 
by the Committee of the Council at the following meeting of delegates, 
of which a letter has been addressed to the leading officers of the 
Corresponding Societies. 
The Committee of the Council of the British Assoziation express the 
opinion that immense benefit would accrue to the country if the 
Corresponding Societies would take advantage of the expert knowledge 
many members possess to endeavour to secure representation for 
scientific education on the Educational Committees now being appointed 
under the new Act. The Council invite the opinion of the Corresponding 
Societies upon higher education to be put forward by their representa- 
tives at the next meeting of delegates for full consideration of this 
subject. In the President’s Address the want of scientific education 
in this country was deeply deplored, and its great loss shown both in 
the dignity of, and profit to, the nation. 
Beyond the subject of higher education, which occupied much of the 
time, the general useful work of the Corresponding Societies was 
recommended by the various speakers for research in anthropology, 
zoology, botany, geology, meteorology, and photography. Upon the 
work done some reports were given verbally. The prevailing idea for 
the future being that these subjects should be studied in detail, that use- 
ful if not original work might be produced. It was particularly urged 
that a good account of the flora of each district should be carefully 
recorded, as it was found that all evidences of ancient vegetation 
commonly disappeared before modern buildings near towns. ‘The de- 
