38 REPORT—1905. 
Liverpool Geographical Society . . dames Irvine, ¥.R.G.S. 
Liverpool Geological Society . . Joseph Lomas, F.G.S. 
1 2 London: City of London College 
Science Society i J. Logan Lobley, F.G.S. 
Manchester Geographical Society . J. Howard Reed. 
Manchester Geological and Mining William Warts 
Society. 
2 Manchester Microscopical Society . F. W. Hembry, ¥F.R.M.S. 
1 2 Midland Counties Institution of En-\ ‘A, -Lonenaniehl Teta 
gineers. (eit ered ht Orban 
Midland Institute of Mining, Civil, 
and Mechanical Engineers. \ Arnold Lupton, M.Inst.C.E. 
1 2 Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ 
Society. 
1 2 Northamptonshire Natural History | 
Society and Field Club. J 
North of England Institute of Mining 
and Mechanical Engineers. | 
2 North Staffordshire Field Club . 
Northumberland, Durham, and sory | 
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to bo 
} Eustace Gurney. 
Beeby Thompson, F.G.S. 
A. R. Sawyer. 
W. D. Spanton, F.R.C.S. 
castle-upon-Tyne Natural History |N.H Martin, F.B.S.E. 
Society. 
Nottingham Naturalists’ Society . Prof. J. W. Carr, M.A., F.L.S. 
1 2 Paisley Philosophical Institution . Wn. Peattie. 
1 2 Perthshire Society of Natural Science H. Coates, F.R.S.E. 
1 2 Quekett Microscopical Club : . C.F. Rousselet, F.R.M.S. 
ee, Rochdale Literary and ae a J.B, Ashworth, Det. 
Society. 
Somersetshire Archzeological and ‘ 
Natural History Society. } ¥. J. Clone, Bae. 
1 2 South-Eastern Union of Scientific) Rev. R. Ashington Bullen, B.A., 
Societies. } F.L.S. 
South Staffordshire and East Wor- | 
cestershire Institute of Mining } A. R. Sawyer. 
Engineers. 
Tyneside Geographical Society . . Herbert Shaw, F.R.G.S. 
1 2 Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club . Rev. J. O. Bevan, M.A., F.S.A. 
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ie, pre. Geological and Polytechnic Rev. W. Lower Carter, M.A. 
1 Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union . . T. Sheppard, F.G.S. 
2 Yorkshire Philosophical Society . Dr. Tempest Anderson. 
First Meeting, October 30. 
This Meeting was presided over by Dr. Smith Woodward, F.R.S. 
The Corresponding Societies Committee were represented by Mr. Whitaker, 
F.R.S., the Rev. J. O. Bevan, the Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, F.R.S., Dr. 
J. G. Garson, Dr. H, R. Mill, Mr. J. Hopkinson, and Mr. Rudler. 
The Chairman of the Conference, after welcoming the Delegates, 
delivered the following Address :— 
Chairman’s Address. 
I esteem it a special honour to have been deputed by the Council to 
preside over this Conference of Delegates, because there is no nation in 
the world in which local Scientific Societies are so numerous or form so 
prominent a feature of intellectual life as in the kingdom of Great Britain 
and Ireland. I also undertake the duty with peculiar pleasure, because 
I began my scientific career as an active member of the small Society at 
one time flourishing in my native town, and it was then that I first 
learned how to observe and how to write down my observations in a 
