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your attention. A copy is attached to this report, and will be 

 placed in the library for the convenience of members. 



The opinion of the Delegates was then sought as to the place of 

 meeting of the Conference in 1914. The Association will hold its 

 meeting in Australia, and, in the ordinary course of things, when the 

 Association meets in a distant part of the Empire, the Conference 

 of Delegates of Corresponding Societies would be held in London 

 at some time during the autumn. Bat it so happens that the 

 French Association for the advancement of Science proposes to meet 

 at Havre, an important town of France, adjacent to the coast of 

 Britain, and they have issued a cordial invitation to the Delegates 

 to hold their Conference there, and one of their members who was 

 present, spoke very encouragingly in support of the invitation. 

 The matter was discussed at considerable length, and it was 

 eventually decided to accept the invitation, subject to the approval 

 of the Council. 



The other subjects brought before the Conference were " Scientific 

 Societies and the Control of Plant Extermmation," introduced by 

 Mr. A. R. Horwood, and " The Best Means of Preventing the 

 Extinction of Local Species," by Mr. R. H. Whitehouse. Both 

 subjects were somewhat warmly discussed, but without any very 

 enliohtenins: results. 



JANUARY 8th, 1914. 

 Mr. W. J. Kaye, F.E.S., Vice-President in the chair. 



Messrs. D. H. Gotch, of Northampton, A. Leeds, of Knebworbh, 

 W. N. Jackson, of Wimbledon, and T. H. Archer, of Southfields, 

 were elected members. 



Mr. Hugh Main gave an interesting account of his holiday in 

 Switzerland, in 1913, entitled, " The Brunig Road," and illustrated 

 his address with a large number of lantern slides, mainly from his 

 own photographs of the wild life of that region. (See page 49.) 



Mr. Step exhibited a photograph, made by Mr. West (Ashtead), 

 of the " furniture mite " Glijcipha/nis cursor {Acarus domestica). 



