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REPORT — 1894. 



Cro3-don Microscopical and Katural His- 

 tory Club. 



Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian 

 Field Club. 



East Kent Natural Historj' Society ."1 



East of Scotland Union of Naturalists' I 

 Societies. J 



Essex Field Club 



Federated Institution of Mining En- 

 gineers. 



Hampshire Field Club .... 



Hertfordshire Natural History Society 

 and Field Club. 



Leeds Geological Association . 



Leeds Naturalists' Club .... 



Leicester Literary and Philosophical So- 

 ciety. 



Liverpool Geological Society . 



Liverpool Engineering Society 



Malton Nat uralists' Society 



Manchester Geographical Society 



Manchester Geological Society 



North of England Institute of Mining 

 Engineers. 



North Statiordshire Naturalists' Field 

 Club. 



Northamptonshire Natural History So- 

 ciety and Field Club. 



Nottingham Naturalists' Society 



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Nottingham Technical Schools 

 .Paisley Philosophical Institution 

 Perthshire Society of Natural Science 

 Rochdale Literary and Scientific Society 

 Somersetshire Archoeological and Natu- 

 ral History Society. 

 .South London Microscopical and Natural 



History Society. 

 Tyneside Geographical Society 

 "Warwickshire Naturalists' and Archseolo- 



gists' Field Club. 

 Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club . 

 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union . 



W. Topley, F.R.S. 

 C. Hansford. 



A. S. Reid, M.A., F.G.S. 



T. V. Holmes, F.G.S. 

 M. H. Mills, M.Inst.C.E. 



W. Whitaker, B.A., F.R.S. 

 Dr. A. T. Brett. 



P. F. Kendall, F.G.S. 



Harold Wager. 



F. T. Mott, F.R.G.S. 



E. Dickson, F.G.S. 



H. P. Boulnois, M.Inst.C.E. 

 M. B. Slater. 

 Eli Sowerbutts, F.R.G.S. 

 Mark Stirrup, F.G.S. 

 Prof. J. H. Merivale, M.A. 



Dr. J. T. Arlidge. 



C. A. Markham, F.R.Met.Soc. 



J. W. Carr, M.A. 



W. Stafford, M.B. 



C. Hawley Torr. 



Prof. W. Robinson, M.E. 



James Clark. 



A. S. Reid, M.A., F.G.S. 



H. C. March, M.D., F.S.A. 



F. T. Elworthy. 



F. W. Hembry. 



G. E. T. Smithson, F.R.G.S. 

 W. Andrews, F.G.S. 



Rev. J. O. Bevan, M.A. 

 M. B. Slater. 



Nottingham, First Conference, September 14, 1893. 



The Corresponding Societies Committee were represented by Dr. 

 Garson (in the chair), Mr. Topley, Mr. Symons, and Mr. T. V. Holmes 

 (Secretary). 



Dr. Garson, the Chairman, gave a hearty welcome to the delegates 

 present. He stated that these Conferences were began at Aberdeen in 

 188-5. At that time only twenty-four delegates were appointed, while 

 last year there were forty-two. The number of Corresponding Societies 

 had also increased. This was evidence that the attempt to brincr to a 

 focus, as it were, the efforts of the various Corresponding Societies had met 

 with considerable success. But there was also evidence that the Societies 

 did not always sufficiently value fheir privileges. When the annual 

 vcturua were sent out from the office of the British Association the 



