COREESPONDING SOCIETIES. 

 Table — contimted. 



571 



Year and Place 



1887. Manchester 



No. of 

 Delegates 

 nominated 



1888. Bath . 

 1S89. Newcastle- 

 on-Tyne 



32 



38 

 35 



1800. Leeds 



1897. Toronto 



1898. Bristol 



1899. Dover 



24 



4G 



37 



Chief subjects discussed 



On the recommendations received from the various 

 Sections. It was announced that a Resolu- 

 tion passed in 1887 by Sections B and C — 

 ' That the Conference of Delegates of Corre- 

 sponding Societies be empowered to send 

 recommendations to the Committee of Re- 

 commendations for their consideration and for 

 report to the General Committee' — had been 

 accepted by the General Committee, and had 

 become a rule of the British Association 



The Ancient Monuments Act 



On the placing of Delegates on Sectional Com- 

 mittees. The followingResoliitionwaspassed: — 

 ' That the relations of delegates to the Sec- 

 tional Committees as at present existing are un- 

 saiisfactory, and that the matter be referred to 

 the Corresponding Societies Commiltee for their 

 consideration.' 



The Committee reported that 'after giving the 

 matter careful consideration they have come 

 to the conclusion that they possess no power 

 under the present rules of the Association 

 of attaching delegates to the Sectional Com- 

 mittees ' 



On the desirability of bringing the smaller 

 non-publishing local societies into relationship 

 with the British Association. The Corre- 

 sponding Societies Committee authorised its 

 Secretary 'to supply any local society which 

 may apply for i hem with copies of the reports 

 of the Conferences, the lists of Committees, 

 and other information likely to be of use in 

 furthering local scientific investigation' 



Various subjects connected with Sections A, B, C, 

 D, E, G, and H 



The destruction of native plants and of the eggs 

 of wiid birds 



Subjects considered in Sections A, C, D, E, G, H 



The organisation of local museums 



Meteorological observations and records 



District unions of natural history societies. 

 On a federal staff for local museums 



The federation of local societies. The life- 

 histories of animals. Principal museums in 

 Cann,da and Nexfoundlnnd 



Coast erosion. The desirability of uniformity of 

 size in the pages of the publications of 

 scientific societies 



The living subterranean fauna of Great Britain 

 and Ireland. The objects of the ' National 

 Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural 

 Beauty.' And as to the best means of making 

 the Conferences of Delegates more useful 



As stated in the Report of the Dover Conference, it was decided that 

 •with regard to the best ways of making the Conferences more useful the 



