640 iJEPORTS ON THE StATfi OF SCIENCE. 



List of Associated Societies appointing Delegates, 



1 Bakewell Naturalists' Club . . E. M. Wrencb, M.V.O. 



1 2 Balham and District Antiquarian and "1 c- t^j j -d u \ n-n 



Natural History Society j ^''^ ^^^^'^ Brabrook, C.B. 



1 2 Bournemouth Natural Science Society J. E. Liddiard, F.E.G.S. 

 1 2 Bradford Natural History and Micro- "1 ,„ -nr . -c^ t o 



scop.cal Society [ W. West, F.L.S. 



Catford and District Natural History 1 . ^ tr j- 

 Society j ^- B- Harding. 



Dunfermline Naturalists' Society . Henry Beveridge. 

 ^todety''^""'^'' ^""^ Microscopical j ^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^..tchex. 

 ] 2 Grimsby and District Antiquarian and 1 „ r^ m r\r -c t a 

 Naturalists' Society J °'- O" ^- O'^en, F.L.S. 



1 2 Hampstead Scientific Society . .CO. Bartrum, B.Sc. 

 1 Hastings and St. Leonards Natural 1 r^ ,-, oi 



History Society } ^^ »• ^kyrme. 



Hawick Archaiological Society . . C. J. Wilson. 

 Ipswich and District Field Club . P. G. H. Boswell. 

 Leeds Naturalists' Club and Scientific 1 tt i j -nr t^ -r. o 



Association | Harold Wager, F.E.S. 



1 2 Lewisham Antiquarian Society . . Sir Edward Brabrook, C.B. 



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Newcastle-upon-Tyne Literary and 1 p „ 



Philosophical Society ] ^ '^°^- *^- ^' hotter, V .L.h. 



Preston Scientific Society . . . Edmund Dickson. F.G.S. 

 Scarborough Pliilosophical and 1 „ v i. t- ht o 

 Archffiological Society | ^^'^^'^ ^^^"g' ^Sc- 



1 2 School Nature Study Union . . Mrs. White, D.Sc. 



Scottish Microscopical Society . . Alexander Kraser, M.A. 

 Southport Society of Natural Science . D. E. Benson. 

 South' London Entomological and 1 „ u i a 31 • tt. r^ « 

 Natural History Society | ^"^e^^* ^'^'^>°- ^^^■^^ 



1 Teign Naturalists' Field Club . .' John S. Amery. 



1 Torquay Natural History Society . A. Somervail. 



1 2 Watford Camera Club . . . John Hopkinson, F.L.S. 



I^ii-st Meeting, September 3. 



Tlie Meeting wag presided over ty Professor H. A. Miers, F.R.S., Chairman 

 of the Conference. The Corresponding Societies Committee was represented by 

 the Rev. .T. 0. Bevan, Sir Edward Brabrook, Mr. .1. Hopkinson, Dr. H. R. Mill, 

 Mr. ^\. r. D. Stebbing, and Mr. \V. Whituker, F.R.S. 



The Very Rev. Dr. Delany, PriiKipi'l of University College, having wel- 

 comed the Delegates, the Chairman delivered an address on ' The Educational 

 Opportunities of Local Scientific Societies.' 



Chairman's Address. 



The subject which I have chosen for my brief Address is one to which I think 

 attention may be profitably drawn at the present moment. The opportunities for 

 scientific education have become so changed during the last few years, and yet at 

 the same time the gulf between the amateur and the trained scientist has been in 

 a sense so widened, that the educatiorial position occupied by the Local Societies 

 deserves to be reconsidered. 



It will, I think, be generally granted that the London and other central 

 societies are becoming more and more the haunt of the professional scientific man, 

 and I wish to raise the questioi^ whether under these circumstances it may not 

 be hoped that the Local Societies will accept an increased responsibility for the 



