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REPORTS 
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STATE OF SCIENCE. 
Corresponding Societies Commuttee.—Report of the .Committee, consist- 
ing of Mr. W. WuiraKker (Chairman), Mr. F. W. Ruper 
(Secretary), Rev. J. O. Bevan, Dr. Horace T. Brown, Dr. 
VAUGHAN CoRnIsH, Principal E. H. Grirriras, Mr. T. V. Homgs, 
Mr. J. Horxinson, Professor R. Metpoia, Dr. H. R: Mint, Mr. 
C. H. Reap, Rev. T. R. R. Sressina, Professor W. W. Warts, 
and the GENERAL OFFICERS. (Drawn up by the Secretary.) 
TuE Committee beg leave to report that at several meetings during the 
past session they have had under consideration the suggestions with 
reference to Corresponding Societies which were brought forward by 
Principal E. H. Griffiths at the Conference of Delegates at Cambridge 
last year. In accordance with a Resolution passed at that meeting, and 
sent up to the Committee of Recommendations, the General Committee 
of the Association appointed a Committee, consisting of certain Members 
‘of the Council, with representatives of the Corresponding Societies, in | 
order to consider the present relation between the British Association 
and the local scientific societies, with power to make suggestions for the 
greater utilisation of such relationship. This Joint Committee duly 
reported to the Council of the Association, and their Report was remitted 
by the Council to the Corresponding Societies Committee. The recom- 
mendations in the Report were discussed and amended by this Committee, 
and were finally adopted, in the amended form, by the Council. 
As a result of this discussion there will henceforth be two classes of 
local societies eligible for relationship with the British Association. One 
class, to be called Affiliated Societies, will consist, as at present, of such 
societies as undertake local scientific investigation and publish the 
results. Each Affiliated Society may be represented at the meetings of 
the British Association by a delegate, who must be a Member of the 
Association, and who will be, for the time being, a member of the General 
Committee. The new class of corresponding societies, to be called 
Associated Societies, will include societies formed for the purpose of 
encouraging the study of science, which have been in existence for at 
least three years and number not fewer than fifty members. Each 
Associated Society will have the right to appoint a delegate to attend 
the Annual Conference. This delegate, who may be either a Member or 
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