46 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 
that the local work connected with the Section should embrace the 
following :— 
i. Further investigations on Drift. 
ii. The watching of new’sinkings and borings, and the examination 
of cores. 
iii. The collecting of local terms applicable to geology and geography. 
Mr. W. Whitaker supported this recommendation, and especially 
solicited the aid of Provincial Societies in recording the meaning of 
local terms applied to geological objects. 
Mr. Wilfred Mark Webb (Section D, Zoology) asked the representa- 
tives of the Corresponding Societies for help in connection with the dis- 
tribution of Centipedes and Millepedes. He offered to send a booklet 
and collecting-tubes to anyone who would send him specimens, on appli- 
cation to him at Odstock, Hanwell, London, W _ The results will be 
published by the Ray Society in a monograph. 
The Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing expressed a hope that Mr. Webb’s request 
for centipedes would meet with a better response than his own often- 
repeated petition for well-shrimps had received. Of these the Delegates 
had never sent him any, although it is certain they are to be found in 
many parts of the kingdom. He further pointed out that in Section D, 
judging by the size of the audiences, far greater interest had this year 
been shown in Mendelian experiments than in any other subject. 
Mr. E. Heawood (Section E, Geography) wrote that his Committee 
could add nothing to the suggestions made by Mr. Mackinder in his 
address in connection with the work of Local Societies. 
Mr. H. E. Wimperis (Section G, Mechanical Science) said that he had 
been instructed by his Committee to attend the meeting as a mark of 
their general sympathy. Owing, however, to the nature of their work 
they did not feel empowered to offer the Conference any suggestions. 
Mr. G. L. Gomme (Section H, Anthropology) urged the local societies 
to organise a scheme for the photographing of ascertained types of local 
population. It was not too late to do this, for there were still people who 
had never left their villages, who had married inside their villages, and 
who were descendants of many generations of villagers. It was essential 
to select those persons whose names were to be found in the parish 
registers of as early a date as possible, and to take the photographs on a 
plan which should be common to all the counties. A collection of such 
photographs, possible now, would be impossible a few years hence, and 
one of the most fruitful means of identifying local ethnological types 
will have become destroyed without a record. The interest of sucha 
collection would be enormous. The comparison of the various types 
would provide important ethnological data. Mr. Gomme mentioned the 
case of a village in Bucks where he had a cottage, and where two or 
three family names appeared over and over again, dating from the 
earliest times of the parish registers. The type of face was most dis- 
tinctive for the men, and was of almost classical perfection ; not so 
distinctive for the women, and not so perfect in form. He was certain 
that this meant something in the history of the Buckinghamshire village. 
The same kind of evidence repeated in the villages of every county where 
distinction and the necessary amount of evidence were forthcoming would 
be of the utmost value. On behalf of Section H he urged this im- 
