Xlii. THE FIRST WINTER MEETING. 



WINTER SESSION, 1912-13. 



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

 Reading Room of the County Museum, Dorchester, on 

 Tuesday, 10th December, 1912. The President (Mr. Nelson 

 M. Richardson) took the chair at 12.30, and among those 

 present were the Hon. Secretary and the Hon. Treasurer. 



Three candidates for membership Avere elected by ballot, 

 and four nominations Avere announced. 



Sir Daniel Morris, K.C.M.G., read his report as the Club's 

 delegate to the British Association meetings at Dundee in 

 September last. 



The Conference of delegates of Corresponding Societies was held 

 under the Chairmanship of Professor F. O. Bower, F.R.S., of 

 Glasgow, who delivered an opening address on the work of the great 

 botanist, Sir Joseph Hooker, G.C.S.I., F.R.S., who was also 

 distinguished as a traveller and geographer, an administrator, a 

 scientific systematist, and a philosophical biologist. 



The official list showed seventy representatives of affiliated societies 

 and nineteen representatives of associated bodies. 



The following were among the subjects discussed at the Conference. 



(a) The results obtained by the British Mycological Society on 

 certain Fungoid Pests, by Miss A. Lorrain Smith, F.L.S. 



(6) A preliminarjr report on the Selborne Society's Committee for the 

 State Protection of Wild Plants, by Mr. A. R. Horwood. 



(c) The Brent Valley Bird Sanctuary : An Experiment. Plant 

 Protection (with lantern illustrations), by Mr. Wilfred Mark Webb, 

 F.L.S. 



(d) Water Power and Industrial Development in connection with the 

 Highland Lochs, by Mr. Alexander Newlands. 



Proposals relating to the Protection of Animals were touched upon 

 by Dr. Chalmers Mitchell, F.R.S., in his address as President of Section 

 D (Zoology) and in respect of the Protection of Plants it received the 

 support of Section K (Botany). 



At the Conference on the second day (Sept. 10th) a resolution was 

 proposed by Mr. G. C. Druce, F.L.S., seconded by Mr. W. Whitaker, 

 F.R.S., and carried, "That this meeting cordially approves of the objects 

 of the Society recently established for the purpose of obtaining areas 

 containing interesting specimens of fauna and flora, and also objects 

 of geological interest." In an address by the Hon. N. C. Rothschild 



