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A catalogue of the more important papers published by the 
Corresponding Societies during the previous year is given with the 
Report of the Corresponding Societies Committee. 
C. O. BARTRUM. 
SOUTH-EASTERN UNION OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
CONGRESS AT HASTINGS. 
Report to the Hampstead Scientific Society of tts Delegate 
at the Congress. 
The thirteenth Annual Congress was held at Hastings on June 
oth, 11th, 12th, and 13th. Many Delegates, Associates and 
Members attended. Your Natural History Secretary acted as 
Delegate of this Society, and other members of the Society were 
also present. 
The President of the Congress was Sir Archibald Geikie, K.C.B., 
F.R.S. His address to the Congress was an exceedingly vivid 
| and concise history of the formation of the Wealden, in the centre 
of the coast of which this Congress was being held. The address 
is published in the South-Eastern Naturalist for 1908. Many 
interesting papers were read. Excursions into the surrounding 
country took place each afternoon. 
. The proposal of your Delegate at the last Congress that Hertford 
_and Essex should be included in the counties covered by the Union 
was laid before the General Committee on Thursday, 11th, and 
passed unanimously. 
The Congress Museum was arranged in Trinity Hall, Hastings. 
_ Among the exhibits was a selection from the lantern slides illus- 
trating the lecture ‘‘ Familiar Trees’ presented to the Union by 
this Society. The Autumn Meeting of the Union was held at 
Tring in November. 
The next Congress will be held at Winchester in June, 1909. 
HucuH FINpDon. 
