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BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF = 
SCIENCE. 
CONFERENCE OF DELEGATES OF CORRESPONDING SOCIETIES AT YORK. 
Report to the Hampstead Scientific Society of its Delegate. 
The Conference of Delegates from the various scientific societies 
in correspondence with the British Association, was held at York, 
on August 2nd and 7th, and was attended by your Delegate, who 
acted as Secretary of the Conference. There are at present eighty 
“ Affiliated Societies ’’—-a group limited to such societies as under- 
take local scientific investigations and publish the results. A 
new class of corresponding societies was, however, established a 
short time ago under the title of “‘ Associated Societies.’ This 
includes such societies as are formed for encouraging the study 
of science, but need not be original publishing bodies. Of this 
new group there are as yet only thirty societies, of which the 
Hampstead Scientific Society is one. 
The first meeting at York was presided over by Sir Edward 
Brabrook, C.B., who referred to the Conference as being the first 
at which the new Associated Societies were represented. He 
insisted on the value of such meetings in bringing the representa- 
tives of local societies into personal relations, and stimulating 
their efforts to improve the working of their respective institutions. 
The meeting was mainly occupied by a discussion of the way in 
which local societies could assist in meteorological work—a subject 
which was ably introduced by Dr. Hugh Robert Mill, the well- 
known authority on rainfall. If the Hampstead Scientific Society 
should at any time undertake systematic observations in meteoro- 
logy, the suggestions in his paper will be most helpful. 
The Chairman of the second meeting was Mr. John Hopkinson, 
of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society, to whose initiative 
some five-and-twenty years ago these annual conferences were 
largely due. The present meeting was chiefly devoted to the 
reading and discussion of a paper on ‘‘ The Desirability of Promoting 
County Photographic Surveys,’ by Mr. W. Jerome Harrison, of 
Birmingham. The author was entitled to speak with authority, 
inasmuch as he was mainly instrumental in founding the survey 
movement, having pleaded as far back as 1889 for a photographic 
survey of Warwickshire. As the Hampstead Scientific Society 
has a flourishing Photographic Section, the subject is one of 
great interest to us; and the representatives of that Section will 
read Mr. Harrison’s paper with much interest. The paper, with 
the discussion, has been published in the official Report of the 
