CORRESPONDING SOCIETIES 



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quoted above, is exemplified, among other ways, in 

 the foundation of local scientific societies. Delegates 

 from such societies had been welcomed for many 

 years at our meetings before their attendance was put 



Number of Local Societies founded % 



1790-1800 



1911- 1920 



Years of Foundation of Corresponding Societies. 



upon a regular footing ; c affiliation ' or ' association ' 

 with the British Association was offered to local 

 societies, and an organised Conference of Delegates 

 of Corresponding Societies was established as a 

 feature of the proceedings (1885). It is of incidental 

 interest to assign the years of the foundation of 

 123 local scientific societies, which are now thus in 



