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a resolution was passed, to be submitted to the Committee of Recom- 
mendations for transmission to the Council of the Association, 
with a view to obtaining information and giving advice for the 
execution of a Photographic Survey. It would appear that valu- 
able work could be done by the co-operation of our Photographic 
and Natural History Sections in such work. 
The second meeting was presided over by the Rev. J. O. 
Bevan, Vice-chairman. 
Mr. Carleton Rea urged the attention of local societies to the 
investigation of the Fungi of their districts, a subject which has 
been neglected, and which, in addition to its scientific interest, 
is of great economic importance. 
Your Delegate announced that, as a result of Dr. H. R. Mill’s 
suggestion at the Conference of last year, this Society had asked 
the London County Council for a site on the summit of Hampstead 
Hill for the establishment of a Meteorological Station, and that 
the Council had granted the use of a site. When making this 
announcement, he was unaware that such opposition would be 
shown by the public to the use of public ground for a public purpose 
that the London County Council would afterwards withdraw its 
sanction, as it has since done. 
C. O. BARTRUM. 
SOUTH-EASTERN UNION OF SCIENTIFIC, SOCIETIES. 
CONGRESS AT WOOLWICH. 
Report to the Council of the Hampstead Scientific Socrety of tts 
Delegate at the Congress. 
The twelfth Annual Congress was held at Woolwich on June 
r2th, 13th, 14th and 15th. Delegates from twenty-six Societies 
were present, including the Secretary of the Natural History 
Section. 
The President of the Congress was Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, 
F.R.S., one of our Vice-Presidents, whose address on the fallacy 
of the proverb ‘‘ Let the Cobbler stick to his Last,” was delivered 
at the first evening meeting. In his address he showed how many 
important scientific discoveries had been made by amateurs, who 
had pursued various branches of science as a recreation from 
their “‘ last,’ and instanced Wimshurst, Sturgeon, Herschel, Goethe, 
and many others. 
Some of our members attended the congress as associates or 
