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photographs to spare, to send them to Professor Weiss of Owens College, 

 Manchester, who is the Secretary of the Committee. I have also to 

 inform you that Professor Weiss will send out circulars to all natural 

 history Societies communicating the wants of this Committee, and asking 

 them to be good enough to help us as far as they can. 



Mr. Whitaker : I am the representative here of a Society which does 

 a certain amount of work, and our members would be delighted to help. 

 I have seen many fine photographs of structure and abnormal growth, and 

 photographs of special fungi collected at some of our meetings, and I have 

 no doubt that other Societies will be in the same position. If Professor 

 Weiss sends a circular to our Societies he will get something from them, 

 and I am sure that they will endeavour to help him. 



Mr. Coates : In our Perthshire Society, owing to the difficulty of pre- 

 serving specimens of fungi, we have commenced making a complete series 

 of photographs of all the fungi of the county. Our botanical members 

 collect them and bring them to our rooms and the photographic members 

 reproduce them. This might be found useful in other districts. We have 

 them in our museum, and it would be quite easy to have duplicates made 

 for other parties. 



Mr. Wager : What we want is to have a botanical record. 



Mr. Coates : I think many other Societies would be only too glad to 

 do the same. 



Professor Watts : I think it might be worth while to call the atten- 

 tion of any local Society taking this up to the fact that they might form a 

 duplicate collection, each in its own locality. That has been done in some 

 Societies in geological matters, and in this case it would be very important 

 for the local Society to keep a set of prints in the locality. With regard 

 to any other point, I should be only too delighted to give help to Pro- 

 fessor Weiss in the details should this be satisfactory. 



The Chairman : Botany is a department of natural knowledge that is 

 so universally cultivated by local Soci?ties that I hope the suggestions 

 that Mr. Wager has favoured us with will bear much fruit. If no one 

 else desires to address the Conference on Biology we shall pass to 



Section L, Education. 



Dr. Kimmins : I have been desired by this new Section to say that we 

 have formed three Committees this year, but they are not on subjects which 

 the Corresponding Societies could render any definite assistance. It is, 

 however, very probable that in future years we will form Committees that 

 will necessitate local investigations, and then we will appeal to you to 

 help us. 



Mr. Whitaker : The British Association has a remarkably good col- 

 lection of the publications of local Societies. It is growing vastly, and as 

 the space at the offices of the Association is limited it is a question as to 

 what will be done with it in time. The great thing is to put it where it 

 can be useful, and any suggestions on that subject would be welcome. 



The Chairman : Has any other Delegate any other subject to bring 

 forward ? If not, I have to thank you very heartily for having attended 

 on these two occasions, and we shall now adjourn until the next meeting 

 of the British Association a year hence. 



On the motion of Dr. Yaughan Cornish a hearty vote of thanks was 

 given to the Chairman. 



