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RULES OF THE SOCIETY. 
Copies of the Rules may be obtained on application to the 
Honorary Secretaries, 12, Heath Mansions, Heath Street, N.W. 
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BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT 
OF SCIENCE. 
CONFERENCE OF DELEGATES OF CORRESPONDING SOCIETIES AT 
LEICESTER. 
Report to the Hampstead Scientific Society of its Delegate. 
The Conference of Delegates held two meetings at Leicester 
on August Ist and 6th, during the visit of the Association, at 
both of which your Delegate was present. 
Mr. H. J. Mackinder, the chairman of the Conference, presided 
over the first meeting. In his address he urged the desirability 
of local societies undertaking geographical research in their par- 
ticular districts. As an example of the kind of work he proposed, 
he instanced the study of the distribution of plant association, 
the mapping of the area into moorland, woodland, etc., and the 
indication of the position of such associations as are characteristic 
of heather moors, swamps, natural pastures, oakwoods, &c., with 
records of the species found with each. The distribution of plant 
association should be interpreted by, and correlated with, the 
physical features. The whole would then form a study of the 
distribution of species from a geographical standpoint. Such 
work is carried out in France by local Geographical Societies, and 
in Germany by professors and students of Geographical Institutes. 
It is to be feared that such a scheme of work would be too ambitious 
for the Natural History students of our Society to undertake at 
present, but it is well to have a high ideal put before them. 
The Rev. R. Ashington Bullen, after referring to the paper 
of last year by Mr. W. Jerome Harrison on the “‘ Desirability of Pro- 
moting County Photographic Surveys,” advocated the appointment 
of a Committee for the Photographic Survey of Ancient Remains in 
the British Islands, thereby placing on permanent record objects 
whose existence is threatened. It was pointed out by Mr. H. S. 
Kingford that a Committee had been appointed by Section H. 
(Anthropology) with a similar object in view. After discussion, 
