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Cheviots with the same end, and in the present year I have sent sets of 

 rocks to any local Society making application for such type rocks as are 

 likely to occur in their districts. I made that reservation, because I do 

 not see the use of supplying a South Welsh Society with Norwegian rocks, 

 or of sending rocks from the Lake District to the North of Scotland. 

 This involved me in a good deal of trouble and a good deal of expense, 

 but I grudged neither the trouble nor the expense while the work was 

 continued, but it is my experience that local Societies will just go as far 

 as they are pushed, and directly we leave off pushing they stop. We 

 have a magnificent record of erratics in the Livei'pool district, but I am 

 inclined to think that the local Societies there consider that they have 

 reached an approximate finality in this work. We have also had records 

 of the Pennine Chain through Lancashire and Yorkshire, but with these 

 exceptions we have scarcely any records coming in at the present time. 

 The Isle of Man was being done, also the North of Ireland under the 

 very energetic guidance of the Belfast Naturalist Society, who have done 

 very admirable work ; but these are two bright spots over a very dull- 

 looking map. In Scotland we have no erratics recorded at all. I sent a 

 circular to every one of the Corresponding Societies, and I got a small 

 number of responses ; one response which came from Scotland gave 

 me the assurance that the erratics in Scotland had been done, but I 

 have failed to extract any useful or any considerable amount of useful 

 information from the records, which relate largely to the position of 

 boulders and other characteristics. I had only a few records from Ireland. 

 The scope of this Committee has been enlarged deliberately at the request 

 of the Committee itself, and I do hope that the Corresponding Societies of 

 the British Isles will make a response, and if any locality will indicate 

 anything in reason in the way of assistance I can give by means of 

 specimens, &c., I shall be very pleased. 



The Chairman : Professor Kendall has our sympathy in the unfortu- 

 nate position in which he finds himself. We may now pass to 



Section J), Zoology. 



Mr. Denny : I am supposed to represent Section D. Just at the end 

 of the business of the Committee I was asked to come here as a substitute, 

 but I am not commissioned to bring anything before the Committee. 



The Chairman : We next turn to 



Section E, Geography. 



Dr. Yaughan Cornish : I am delegated by Section E to bring before 

 this Conference a new matter which has arisen at this meeting. You will 

 have heard that there was a joint Conference of two or three Sections on the 

 subject of Limnology, the study of lakes. This, of course, is a subject which 

 can only appeal to a limited number of Societies — those in whose areas lakes 

 occur — but it is hoped that these Societies which are fortunate enough to 

 possess lakes in their districts will give their attention to this new pro- 

 posal for the systematic study of the lakes of the British Isles. It is 

 thought that the local Societies could assist in the early stages of that 

 work, more particularly by collecting the bibliography or local publications 

 relating to lakes ; and if any of these references or publications of local 

 Societies are sent to Sir John Murray he will be very glad indeed to 

 receive them. Geography nowadays is becoming local in its character, or 

 perhaps I should put it that the people of the British Isles are beginning 



