CORKESPONDING SOCIETIES. 49 



1 2 Giimsbv and Dislrid Aiiliqiiaiiaii"| ^ t /» . vt o 



and Naturalists feociety. J ' 



1 2 Hampstead Scientific Society . . F. W. Kudler, I.S.O. 

 Hastings and St. Leonards Natural ] ™, p. , . ,, . 

 History Society. J ' 



1 2 Lewisham Antiquarian Society . . A. E. Salter, D.Sc. 

 1 2 Teign Naturalists' Field Club . . 1'. F. S. Amery. 

 1 Torquay Natural History Society . A. Somervail. 



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



First Meeting, Aiogust 2. 



The Meeting was presided over by Sir Edward Brabrook, C.B. The 

 Corresponding Societies Committee was represented by Mr. Whitaker, 

 F.R.S., the Rev. J. O. Bevan, the Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, F.R.S., Dr. 

 H. R. Mill, Mr.J. Hopkinson, and Mr. Rudler. 



Chairman's Address. By Sir Edward Brabrook, C.B., V.-P.S.A. 



It is my privilege to open the proceedings of this meeting, which is the 

 twenty-second Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies of the 

 British Association for the Advancement of Science, and the first at which 

 associated as well as affiliated Societies are represented. I am much 

 honoured by having been selected by the Corresponding Societies Com- 

 mittee and appointed by my colleagues of the Council to occupy the chair 

 of the Conference in the present year ; and I anticipate great advantage 

 from the new departure, alike to the Societies which are here brought into 

 union and to the Association. I am myself the representative of one of 

 the Societies which are now for the first time permitted to be associated 

 with you — a Society so small that it was barely able to qualify for that 

 honour by the possession of fifty members, but yet one which has been 

 able, in the few years of its existence, to justify that existence by stimu- 

 lating in the neighbourhood where I reside an interest in antiquities and 

 in natural history, and by the publication of a paper by the late Mr. 

 T. W. Shore bearing upon those subjects, with especial relation to local 

 affairs. I have also the pleasure of welcoming here, in the person of 

 Dr. A. E. Salter, the representative of another such Society, which has 

 existed for twenty-one years, and has produced many excellent publi- 

 cations, and of v>'hicli I had the honour to be its first and am again its 

 present President. I cannot but feel, therefore, very great interest in 

 the new arrangements by which these useful but modest Societies have 

 been brought into line with those more important and more ambitious 

 ones which have hitherto been recognised as the Corresponding Societies 

 of the British Association. 



The work of those Societies, especially in relation to Section H, has been 

 watched by me with very great satisfaction. At the Edinburgh meeting 

 in 1892 I read before that Section a paper on the Organisation of Local 

 Anthropological Research, which was published in the 'Journal of the 

 Anthropological Institute ' for February 1893. At that time these Con- 

 ferences and the Corresponding Societies Committee had been in operation 

 for eight yeai-s. From the materials supplied, by the reports of that 

 Committee I sought an answer to the question, What had local Societies 

 then already done for anthropology ? and I obtained the information 

 that during the eight years — 1885 to 1892 — as many as thirty- three local 

 1906. E 



