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will lose more by the misuse of current English than by the invention of new 

 terms for new ideas and new materials. A rose by any other name may smell as 

 sweet, but we cannot get sweet-smelling roses if we order them under the name of 

 dandelions. In short, to put new meanings into standard English words appears 

 to me as unjustifiable as to put home-brewed beer into Bass-labelled bottles. 



The Vice-Chairman, in proposing a vote of thanks to Professor Gregory for 

 his Address, said that in the New Forest the larva of the Fox moth was called 

 by the labouring men the Palmer worm. Sir Charles Lyell throughout justi- 

 fied the use of the term ' rock ' for all geological deposits by saying that it came. 

 from the Italian word 'rocca,' a term not confined to hard rocks. 



The vote was seconded by Sir Edward Brabrook (Balham and District 

 Antiquarian and N. H. Society), who, while thanking Professor Gregory for bis 

 treatment of a very fascinating subject, could not resist the gentle criticism 

 that scientific men were partly to blame in the matter of their own misuse of 

 scientific terms. 



The vote was carried unanimously. 



The Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing asked, as a matter of importance to the standing 

 of the Conference, if it could not be arranged that the names of the delegates 

 be printed in the daily programme with the title of the Chairman's Address 

 and those of the papers for discussion. 



It was pointed out that a list of the delegates already appeared in the list 

 of members attending the meeting. As to the second query, it was notified that 

 the Secretaries of the Association would be consulted. It was hoped that their 

 answer would be favourable. 



Mr. Alfred Pope (Dorset N. H. and Antiquarian Field Club) asked if the re- 

 commendation of the Conference passed at Leicester in 1907, that Corresponding 

 Societies should obtain photographic surveys of places of natural beauty and 

 buildings of historic or antiquarian interest in their several counties, had been 

 followed, and in how many and in which counties such surveys had been com- 

 menced? So far as the society which he represented was concerned, he was 

 glad to be able to report that a Photographic Section had been formed, and a 

 Committee appointed, and that good work had been done in the direction sug- 

 gested. 



Mr. W. Whitaker (Essex Field Club), replying to Mr. Pope, said that a 

 large amount of work had been done by such a survey in Surrey, and that 

 considerable progress had been made by surveys on similar lines in Sussex and 

 Kent. Several other counties where the enthusiasm and needful finances were 

 forthcoming were also giving attention to the matter. It was one of great im- 

 portance at a time when so much was disappearing with the growth of towns 

 and under the guise of progress. 



The Conference was then adjourned to the following week. 

 Second Meeting, September 5. 



The Chairman, who again presided, opened the meeting and announced that 

 the notice of proceedings of the Conference would in future be printed in the 

 daily journal for the days on which it met. 



Mr. F. Balfour Browne (Belfast Naturalists' Field Club) reported the results 

 already reached in the interim report issued by the sub-committee of Sections 

 D and K (p. 126). The subject of their labours is mentioned in the Report of 

 the Corresponding Societies Committee. As a basis for further work the 

 members of the sub-committee were all agreed as to the soundness of the Wat- 

 son i an County and Vice- County System. 



Mr. Harold Wager (British Mycological Society) opened a discussion on 



The Study of Fungi by Local Natural History Societies. 1 * 



The following topics were briefly discussed : The importance of the study 

 of Fungi. How Natural History Societies can best help in the work. Systematic 



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