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IMIOTOC.RAI'HIC SURVKY. 



The principal business before the second meetini^ was the 

 consideration of a paper by Mr. W. Jerome Harrison, F.G.S., 

 on 'The Desirability of Promoting- County Photographic 

 Surveys.' In dealing with this important subject, Mr. Harrison 

 referred to the origin of the movement in 1889, when at a meeting 

 in Birmingham of the representatives of numerous local photo- 

 g-raphic, scientific, and literary societies a paper was read, 

 entitled, ' Notes upon a Proposed Photographic Survey of 

 Warwickshire.' This paper was the amplification of the ideas 

 which had been urged in a previous note upon the work of the 

 local photographic society read before the Birmingham Photo- 

 g-raphic Society in 1885. The ambition was to link together 

 photographers of the entire civilised world by the extension of 

 the survey idea. The paper continued to sketch the progress 

 of the survey work in Britain and to deal with three objects of 

 the work, which are to benefit the individual photographer, the 

 scientific and photog^raphic societies, and the nation. In an 

 appendix Mr. Harrison gave details of the movement, and 

 suggested that the British Association seemed to be specially 

 well fitted to carry on the work. 



It was ultimately agreed to recommend that a committee be 

 appointed next year to promote photographic survey work in 

 the British Isles. The names suggested for this Committee 

 were — Rev. J. O. Bevan, Rev. Ashington Bullen, John Brown, 

 William Crooke, Mr. W. Jerome Harrison, and Thomas 

 Sheppard. 



CORRESrONDING SOCIETIES. 



In the report of the Corresponding Societies Committee it was 

 stated that with the view of carrying into effect the new regu- 

 lation whereby many of the smaller local Societies which exist 

 in this country for the encouragement of the study of science 

 may, under certain circumstances, become Associated Societies, 

 a circular was drawn up and addressed in the early part of the 

 year to a number of such Societies. It was found with satis- 

 faction that some of these Societies had undertaken and 

 published original scientific work, and were consequently 

 entitled to Affiliation. Amongst those recommended, from the 

 character of their published work, to be placed on the list of 

 Affiliated Societies are the Liverpool Biological Society and the 

 \'ale of Derwent Xatiu alists' Field Club. 



Naturalist, 



