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reports of officers were received, and the decision arrived at to 

 accept the invitation of the Mayor and Corporation of Brighton, 

 supported by all the local societies, to hold the Congress of 1915 at 

 London-by-the-Sea. Our own Society was honoured by the selec- 

 tion of our member Prof. Eaphael Meldola as the President-elect, 

 and other useful business transacted. The Delegates' Meeting was 

 followed by two lectures : by Mr. W. Munn Rankin on " The 

 Vegetation of the Bournemouth District," and by Dr. W. T. Ord, 

 on " The Scenery of Bournemouth and its Geological History." In 

 the afternoon there was a choice of excursions to Heron Court and 

 Wimborne Minster, New Milton and Barton Cliffs, and the 

 meadows and marshes at the mouth of the Stour by Christchurch 

 Priory. Your delegates chose the latter and enjoyed a delightful 

 ramble amid the varied and abundant vegetation of the marshlands. 



In the evening was the great social event of the Congress — the 

 reception by the Mayor and Mayoress, supported by the President, 

 and attended by a large concourse of local friends. The conver- 

 sazione that followed was spread over a range of thirteen com- 

 modious apartments, where the scientific side-shows were installed, 

 so that although the attendance was very large the very varied 

 exhibits could be examined with comfort. It was certainly the 

 most successful gathering of the kind in connection with the Union 

 that I have attended. The Bournemouth Natural Science Society, 

 which was responsible for the lecturettes and demonstrations, is to 

 be congratulated on the success of this part of a brilliant function. 



On Friday morning your delegates were again at work early, 

 with a Council meeting at 9.15. At 11 an old friend of our Society 

 in the '80s — the Rev. J. E. Kelsall, M.A. — gave a lecture on the 

 "Flora of the New Forest," and was followed by Mr. A. F. 

 Ravenshear, B.Sc, on " Applied Science and the Patent System." 

 In the afternoon the visits included Christchurch Priory and Hart's 

 Museum for one party, and a drive all around Bournemouth for 

 another to elucidate the part geology had played in the configura- 

 tion of the district, and how the characteristic chines had been 

 formed. Both parties included a visit to the wonderful Honey- 

 combe Chine at Boscombe, and all, to the number of several hun- 

 dreds, combined in a garden party at Michelgrove House, where the 

 Congress Photographic Group was taken. In the evening Sir 

 Ronald Ross gave a lantern lecture on " Some Points of Interest in 

 connection with Tropical Medicine," dealing in a most interesting 

 manner with the methods by which sleeping sickness, malaria and 

 tsetse-fly disease (Nagana) had been fought in India and Panama. 



