xlii. THE FIRST WINTER MEETING. 



WINTER SESSION, 1913-14. 



The first Winter Meeting of the Field Club was held at the 

 Museum in Dorchester on Tuesday, 9th December, 1913. The 

 President took the chair at 12.30, and among those present 

 were the Hon. Secretary and the Hon. Treasurer. 



Captain Acland wrote to express his regret at being unable 

 to attend the meeting. 



Four candidates for membership were then elected by 

 ballot, and the Rev. H. Pentin reported four additional 

 nominations. 



Mr. ALFRED POPE read his report as the delegate of the 

 Field Club at the meetings of the British Association in 

 Birmingham, 10th-17th September, 1913 



The meeting was very largely attended, the official list including some 

 2,800 members and associates. 



Sir Oliver Lodge, D.Sc., LL.D., and F.R.S., Principal of Birmingham 

 University, the President of the Association, delivered a learned and 

 interesting address on " Continuity." 



The Conference of delegates was well attended, no less than 120 

 affiliated and associated Societes being represented at their first 

 meeting. 



It was presided over by Dr. P. Chambers Mitchell, F.R.S., who gave 

 an address on " Utility and Selection." This was full of technicalities 

 and very careful study would be required to master its details. It was 

 decided after considerable discussion to hold next year's Conference 

 of Delegates at Havre, during the meeting in that town of the French 

 Association for the Advancement of Science ; Australia, where the 

 British Association holds its meeting next year being considered too far 

 distant for the Delegates to attend. 



Various matters affecting affiliated societies were discussed at this 

 meeting, but as none of them appear to be of interest to our Club I do 

 not refer to them. 



Of the sectional meetings I attended, perhaps the most interesting 

 was the Agricultural Section, presided over by Professor J. B. Wood, 

 M.A., who in his very able opening address referred to the yielding 

 capacity of cereals and how to combat the disease of Yellow Rust in 

 wheat, and to the dietary of animals with a view to the production of 

 the greatest weight of meat. 



