326 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 
Strong representations having been received as to the want of means 
for the publication of original work from which many scientific societies 
suffer, the Committee, with the consent of the Council, drew up a circular 
headed ‘ Suggested Publication Fund.’ This has been sent out to all 
the chartered and local scientific societies not wholly given up to pro- 
fessional interests. By the end of July rather over forty acknowledging 
and detailed replies had been received to this circular. These have been 
partly considered and analysed, but the Committee await further 
replies and the result of the discussion at the Conference of Delegates 
before drawing up their report on the subject to the Council. 
The Committee have decided to recommend that a discussion, intro- 
duced by Professor Meldola, on its ‘ Suggested Publication Fund,’ 
should form a part of the business to be brought before the Conference 
of Delegates on October 25th and 26th. Special delegates have been 
appointed to joi in this discussion. The Committee have also decided 
that the following subjects be brought before the Conference for dis- 
cussion :— 
‘ National Anthropometry : its object, methods and local organisation. 
Demonstration of methods of measurement.’ To be introduced by 
Mr. J. Gray, B.Sc. 
‘The Financial Position of our Local Societies.’ To be introduced 
by Mr. John Hopkinson (Watford). 
Dr. A. C. Haddon has promised to preside at the Conference in 
London and to deliver an address to the Delegates. 
The Committee ask for confirmation of the appointment of Mr. 
F. W. Rudler as Vice-Chairman and Mr. W. P. D. Stebbing as 
Secretary. 
The Committee further ask to be reappointed with the additional 
name of Mr. A. L. Lewis; and they apply for a grant of £25. 
Report of the Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies held 
at the Rooms of the Geological Society in London, 
October 25 and 26, 1909. 
Chairman. : . A.C. Haddon, D.Sc., F.R.S. 
Vice-Chairman d eH Wiemaudlers WS Or 
Secretary. : . W. P. D. Stebbing. 
Owing to the British Association meeting in Canada this year it was 
decided that the Conference of Delegates should meet in London, as was 
the case on the occasion of the South Africa meeting of 1905. The 
meetings were therefore held on the mornings of October 25 and 26, in 
the rooms of the Geological Society in Burlington House. Previously, on 
Sunday, the 24th, the Director (Lieut.-Col. David Prain, C.I.E., F.R.8.) 
and Dr. Stapf conducted a small party round the Royal Gardens at Kew; 
this was followed on Monday by a visit to the Natural History Depart- 
ment of the British Museum at Cromwell Road, under the leadership of 
Dr. A. Smith Woodward, Dr. 8. F. Harmer, and Dr. G. T. Prior; and on 
Tuesday afternoon, by the kindness of the Council of the Zoological Society, 
a party visited the Society’s gardens, and were conducted round by Mr. 
Seth Smith. 
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