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Section D, 



Mr. Slater recorded the interesting fact that a member of the York- 

 shire Naturalists' Union recently found the wild maidenhair fern on 

 the northern portion of Morecambe Bay. It would not be desirable that 

 the exact spot should be given. He would also remark that it was better 

 to obtain seeds from these rare plants than to take the plant itself. 



Section E. 



Mr. Sowerbutts remarked that their member, Mr. Crook, went before 

 the departmental committee appointed to consider the state of the 

 Ordnance Survey in order to give evidence. He had suggested to Mr. 

 Crook that he should write a report on what had been done by the 

 departmental committee, which miglit be presented at the next year's 

 meeting of delegates. The examination on Yorkshire mentioned in the 

 report of the Conference of Delegates at Edinburgh did not take place. 

 They would, however, conduct some examinations next year, and he 

 would be glad if the delegates would make their intentions widely 

 known. It was his opinion that there was no cheap book in existence 

 giving a fairly good account of Yorkshire. The examinations were open 

 to all public and private schools. There would be one on Canada for 

 secondary school children. They had been found to know nothing about 

 geography last year, and he looked for some improvement next time. 



Mr. Hembry had learned that in a certain county children attending 

 schools were not taught geography in any way. He would like to know 

 if this was the case anywhere else. 



Mw Andrews remarked that, acting on the advice of Mr. Whitaker, 

 he had forwarded a list of thirteen ancient earthworks in Warwickshire 

 to the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, ten of which had since 

 been inserted in the map. 



Mr. Hembry thought that geography should certainly be a class 

 subject. In secondary schools they absolutely ignored it ; but he had 

 been astonished to find that an immense advance had been made in the 

 teaching of geography in primary schools. In many of the latter museums 

 of commercial products were now being formed. 



Section G. 

 Professor Merivale had nothing to report about Flameless Explosives. 



Section H. 



Mr. Brabrook made some remarks on the progress made by the 

 Committee appointed to make an Ethnographical Survey of the 

 United Kingdom, whose first report was in the hands of the delegates. 

 The Committee had, he said, obtained, by communication with the 

 Corresponding Societies, a list of nearly SOO villages, with some account 



