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REPORT — 1900. 



apparatus for aiding Mr. Blackman in the continuation of his researches 

 on Vegetable Assimilation and Respiration. 



Enough progress has been made in various directions to allow of the 

 results being brought forward, and the author is engaged in preparing 

 them for publication. The first to appear will be those treating of (1) 

 the influence of the available amount of plastic substances on respiration ; 

 (2) the exact relation of respiration to temperature ; and (3) the relation 

 between water-content and assimilation. 



Corresponding Societies Committee. — IteiJort of the Committee, consistinrj 

 of Professor K. Meldola {Chairman), Mr. T. V. HoLMES {Secre- 

 tary), Mr. Francis Galton, Dr. J. G. Garson, Sir John Evans, 

 Mr. J. HoPKiNSON, Mr. W. Whitaker, the late Mr. G. J. Symons, 

 Professor T. G. Bonney, Sir Cuthbert Peek, Dr. Horace T. 

 Brown, Rev. J. 0. Bevan, Professor W. W. Watts, and Eev. 

 T. R. R. Stebbing. 



This being the last year of the century, the Corresponding Societies 

 Committee of the British Association think it a suitable occasion for a 

 brief review of the proceedings which have taken place at the Conferences 

 of Delegates of the Corresponding Societies since they were reconstituted in 

 the year 1883. The Report of the ' Local Scientific Societies Committee,' 

 stating that ' the delegates of the various Corresponding Societies shall 

 constitute a Conference,' &c., appears in the Repoi-t of the British Asso- 

 ciation for 1884 ; the first Conference of Delegates officially recognised as 

 a department of the Association was held at Aberdeen in 1885, and a 

 report of its proceedings is given in the Birmingham volume (1886).^ 

 Thence to, and including, the year 1893 the Reports of the Conferences 

 are one year behind. Thus the discussions at the Edinburgh meeting in 

 1892 are given in the Nottingham volume of 1893. But in the Oxford 

 volume (1894) appear Reports of the Conferences held both at Nottingham 

 and at Oxford ; and since 1894 the Reports of the Conferences of Dele- 

 gates may be found in the Report of the British Association for the year 

 in which they occurred. The chief subjects considered at the Conferences 

 are here given, ordinary sectional discussions being noticed when they 

 were the only discussions of the Conference. 



' The first report of the Corresponding Societies Committee was presented at 

 Aberdeen and is given in the Report for 1885, pp. 708-722. 



