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been taken as read, the President invited the delegates to make 
any statement connected with the work of the Committees 
appointed last year, or any suggestions as to the harmonious 
working of the several societies. Amongst the various matters 
‘discussed the following seemed the most important :—(1) The 
advantage of making an archeological index and survey of the 
whole of England, and showing on the map not only the 
prehistoric, but the British and Roman remains therein. The 
Society of Antiquaries ask the assistance of the local societies to 
aid them in carrying out this object. (2) Advisability of making 
observations on the surface temperature of lakes, rivers and 
estuaries, or any exposed water. (3) The gradual disappearance 
of native plants, and the necessity of local societies taking the 
matter up and chronicling, so far as they could, the disappearance 
of such plants. (4) The appointment of a Committee to 
investigate the invertebrate fauna, and cryptogamic flora of the 
fresh water of the British Isles, and to induce microscopists to 
undertake systematic investigation of the physical and geological 
features of the various rivers and lakes they studied. (5) By no 
means the least important subject discussed was the progress 
made in photographing various geological features of the country. 
A Committee was formed for this purpose, with Professor Bonney 
as President, which, it is hoped, will soon issue some recommend. 
ations oa different points, such as the means of readily showing 
the scale of height or length of the section ; the most convenient 
size of photograph (8din. by 64in. has been suggested), and some 
systematic way of collecting and recording them, so that geologists 
might know what had been taken. Your delegate had the 
pleasure of exhibiting at one of the soirées some photographs, 
taken by one of the members of the Club, of the memorial tablet 
recently erected by the Club to the memory of William Smith at 
Tucking Mill, near Midford ; also some sections of the Midford 
sands in which he worked. 
The finances of the Club are in a satisfactory state, as the 
