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Mr. J. P. Barrett exhibited lantern slides illustrating numerous 

 scenes and collecting grounds around Mt. Etna, Sicily. 



Mr. Hugh Main exhibited lantern slides showing details of the 

 economy of the wasp, structural points m the glow-worm, the 

 larva of Tkeretra }wreellm, and a most interesting and unique 

 series of slides illustrating his observations of the oviposition, 

 cell building, and mothering of her offspring by the millepede 

 [Foli/deminis comylanatus). See page 32. 



BEITISH ASSOCIATION. 



Eeport oe the Delegate to the 

 Conference of Corresponding Societies. 



By Robert Adkin. 



The Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies of the 

 British Association was held during the Portsmouth Meeting, on 

 Thursday, August 31st, and Tuesday, September 5th, under the 

 chairmanship of Prof. J. W. Gregory, F.R.S., the Vice-Chairman 

 being Mr. William Dale, F.S.A., when the following business was 

 transacted. 



The Chairman read an address, taking for his subject " The 

 Scientific Misappropriation of Popular Terms," in which, after 

 pointing out that the Societies represented at the Conference are 

 the strongest link between the technical specialist and those who 

 take a friendly interest in science, dwelt upon the danger of using 

 an old familiar word to express a new idea, in the vain hope of 

 catching the public mind. It is worse, said he, to be misled by 

 a plausible phrase than to be startled or repelled by a correct 

 technical statement, and he urged that Science will lose more 

 by the misuse of current English than by the invention of new 

 terms for new ideas. To put new meanings into standard English 

 words appears unjustifiable. 



Mr. F. Balfour Browne referred to the question of the 

 " Systematic Recording of Captures " which he introduced at the 

 Conference in 1910, and reported that the Committee then 



