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ItEPORT — 1894. 



Federated Institution of Mining Engi- M. H. Mills, M.Inst.C.E. 



neers. 

 Glasgow Archaeological Society . ."1 t t. in- i i. 

 Glasiow Geological Society . . .} J- B. Murdoch. 



Glasgow Philosophical Society . . Prof. J. G. McKendrick, M.D., 



Hampshire Field Club . . . . T. W. Shore, F.G.S. 



Hertfordshire Natural History Society John Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S. 



and Field Club. 



Isle of Man Natural History and Anti- His Honour Deemster Gill. 



quarian Society. 



Leeds Geological Association . . . B. Holgate, F.G.S. 



Leeds Naturalists' Club and Scientific Harold Wager, F.L.S. 



Association. 

 Liverpool Geological Society . . .0. W. Jeffs. 



Malton Field Naturalists' and Scientific R. T. G. Abbott. 



Society. 



Manchester Geographical Society . ^ . Eli Sowerbutts, F.R.G.S. 



Manchester Geological Society . . Mark Stirrup, F.G.S. 



Midland Union of Natural History Socie- W. E. CoUinge. 



ties. 



Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society Clement Reid, F.G.S. 



North of England Institute of Mining Prof. J. H. Merivale, JI.A. 



Engineers. 



Northamptonshire Natural History So- C. A. Markham, F.R.Met.Soc. 



ciety and Field Club. 



North Staffordshire Naturalists' Field Dr. J. T. Arlidge, M.A. 



Club. 



Nottingham Naturalists' Society . . W. Bradshaw. 



Perthshire Society of Natural Science . H. Coates, F.R.S.E. 



Rochdale Literary and Scientific Society J. Reginald Ashworth, B.Sc. 



Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural F. T. Elworthy. 



History Society. 



South London Microscopical and Natural F. W. Hembry, F.R.M.S. 



History Society. 



Tyneside Geographical Society . . G. E. T. Smithson. 



Warwick.shire Naturalists' and Archseo- W. Andrews, F.G.S. 



legists' Field Club. 



Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club . . Rev. J. 0. Bevan, M.A. 



Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Thos. Tate, F.G.S. 



Society. 



Yorkshire Naturalists' Union . . . M. B. Slater, F.L.S. 



Oxford, First Cojjference, August 9, 1894. 



The Corresponding Societies Committee were represented by Professor 

 R. Meldola (Chairman), Pi-ofessor T. G. Bonney, Sir John Evans, Sir 

 Douglas Galton, Dr. Garson, Mr. J. Hopkinson, Mr. Cuthbert Peek, Sir 

 Rawson Rawson, Mr. G. J. Symons, Mr. W. Topley, Mr. W. Whitaker, 

 and Mr. T. V. Holmes (Secretary). 



The Chairman remarked that as this was their tenth Conference it 

 had been suggested to him that it would afford a good opportunity for a 

 review of the work done during that period. On the whole, however, he 

 thought that a review of that kind might form a dangerous precedent, as 

 tending to the delivery of an annual address which would occupy time 

 more profitably spent in discussing topics in which the delegates were 

 specially interested. Hitherto, owing to a bye-law enacting that the 

 Report of the Corresponding Societies Committee should be presented to the 



