10 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 
Committee of Recommendations for transmission to the Council of the 
Association :— 
That it is advisable : 
1. To obtain information as to the present state of things in Britain 
in connection with Photo-Survey Work. 
2. To publish instructions or give advice for the execution of a 
Scientific Photographic Survey. 
3. To endeavour to found, or promote, a Photo Record of the town 
and district in which the British Association holds its Annual Meeting. 
The Report of the Corresponding Societies Committee was read by 
the Secretary, and it was resolved to apply for a grant of 25/. 
Second Meeting, August 6. 
The Meeting was presided over by the Rev. J. O. Bevan, M.A., Vice- 
Chairman. 
The Corresponding Societies Committee was represented by Mr. Bevan, 
Sir Edward Brabrook, Mr. Rudler, the Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, and Mr. 
W. Whitaker. 
The Vice-Chairman apologised for the absence of Mr. Mackinder 
(who had been called away on important business), and, in his name, 
welcomed the delegates to the second session. He lamented the facts 
that the delegates had but little time to make each other’s acquaintance ; 
that they were unable to meet but for two short sessions, at the period 
of the annual gathering ; and that the personnel of the Conference 
materially changed from year to year, so that the interest excited had a 
tendency to die down and become extinguished. He asserted that the 
Corresponding Societies Committee were very sensible of these disadvan- 
tages, and were willing to adopt any suggestion whereby they might be 
counteracted. In face of the disabilities above mentioned, he ventured to 
impress upon the delegates the responsibility which rested upon them to 
take an active part in the proceedings of the Conference ; to make known 
to its members any branch of scientific work carried out by the bodies 
they respectively represented ; and, in turn, to report to their societies 
the main results arrived at in the various sectional meetings (or such 
portion as might particularly affect their locality), especially the suggestions 
for local work made at this conference by the Recorders of the various 
sections. He concluded by saying that in this way the British Associa- 
tion would fulfil its functions—of stimulating workers in the various 
departments of research, of popularising science and scientific method, 
and of exercising a co-ordinating influence over the various Societies 
whose representatives he had the honour of addressing. 
Mr. Carleton Rea, B.C.L., M.A. (Worcestershire Naturalists’ Club), 
then introduced the following subject : 
A Plea that Local Societies should give greater attention to the investiga- 
tion of the Fungi occurring in their Districts, with Suggestions for the 
Encouragement of the Study of this Group. 
As the suggestion of the subject for discussion to-day originated with 
myself on behalf of the British Mycological Society, I felt, as their 
honorary Secretary, bound to accept the invitation of the Corresponding 
