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instead of monthly. Needless to say the suggestions received 

 no support, but one wonders why they were made, as on page 

 70 of the Sheffield report, one of the three largely responsible 

 for that Conference, states ' It has been a pleasure to have the 

 inspectors here, and we hope we shall have them at subsequent 

 conferences.' It wotild have been so nice if the Museums' 

 Association proper had ceased its work, so that the Pretender 

 could have been alone in the field. No, we have not room for 

 two Museums' Associations in this country, and if the best 

 aims of museums and art galleries are to be served — and 

 presumably these are the reasons for the existence of such an 

 Association, we must put our individual feelings on one side 

 and work for the common good. Everybody cannot be the 

 president, or editor, or secretary, and if any particular person 

 does not achieve greatness so soon as he would wish, he must 

 wait patiently, and work, and greatness may possibly be thrust 

 upon him. 



CONTENTS OF REPORT. 



To come to the Report itself. Mr. E. Howarth has an 

 introductory paper on ' The Co-ordination of Museums with 

 direct General Education ' (8 pp.), with the 'Abridged Catalogue' 

 (6 pp.) already referred to ; ' Scheme for Scholars visiting the 

 Salford Museums,' (5 pp.), by Ben H. Mullen, ' Report on 

 School Picture Collections in Aberdeen,' (3 pp.), by Robert F. 

 Martin ; ' The Workshop and the School,' (4 pp.), by Henry 

 Cadness, read in the author's absence by R. F, Martin ; ' War 

 Museums' (7 pp.), by H. Bolton, and 'Village War Museums' 

 (4 pp.) by Robert P. Martin (is this still another member of the 

 Martin family, or evidence of faulty editing ?). We have thus 

 accounted for 31 pages actually occupied by the papers read 

 at the Conference — the remainder come mostly under the head 

 of talk. 



CONFERENCE OF DELEGATES.* 



The annual conference of Delegates of Corresponding 

 Societies of the British Association was held in the Geological 

 Society's rooms, Burlington House, on Thursday, July 4th. 

 At the morning session Dr. F. A. Bather gave his presidential 

 address entitled ' The Contribution of Local Societies to Adult 

 Education.' In this Dr. Bather endeavoured to summarise 

 the membership, and estimate the strength of the various scien- 

 tific societies in Great Britain, show the part they were playing 

 in the adult education of the country, and make suggestions for 

 the further usefulness of these societies. His statistics had 

 been difficult to compile and were admittedly incomplete, but 

 it was demonstrated that while some centres were well provided 

 for, in the way of natural history and allied science societies, 



* From Nature, July nth, pp. 376-6. 

 1918 Aug. 1. 



