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BEroRT — 1895. 



Federated Institution o£ Mining Engi- 

 neers. 



Glasgow Geological Society . 



Glasgow I'hilosophical Society 



Hertfordshire Natural History Society . 



Ireland, Statistical and Social Inquiry, 

 Society of. 



Isle of Man Natural History and Anti- 

 quarian Society. 



Liverpool Geological Society . 



Malton Field Naturalists' and Scientific 

 Society. 



Manchester Geographical Society . 



North Staffordshire Naturalists' Field 

 Club. 



Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society 



North of England Institute of Mining 

 Engineers. 



Northamptonshire Natural History So- 

 ciety and Field Club. 



Perthshire Society of Natural Science 



Rochdale Literary and Scientific Society 



Koyal Cornwall Geological Society . 



Somersetshire Archreological and Natu- 

 ral History Society. 



Warwickshire Naturalists' and Archaeolo- 

 gists' Field Club. 



Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club . 



Yorkshire Naturalists' Union . 



M. H. Mills, F.G.S., M.Inst.C.E. 



J. Barclay Murdoch. 

 Robert Gow. 

 John Hopkinson, F.L.S. 

 R. M. Barrington, LL.B. 



His Honour Deemster GilL 



E. Dickson, F.G.S. 

 Dr. E. Colby. 



Eli Sowerbutts, F.E.G.S. 

 C. E. De Ranee, F.G.S. 



H. B. Woodward, F.G.S. 

 Prof. J. H. Merivale, JLA. 



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



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



J. Reginald Ashworth, B.Sc. 



T. R. Polwhele. 



F. T. Elworthy. 



W. Andrews, F.G.S. 



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

 M. B. Slater, F.L.S. 



Ipswich, First Coxference, September 12, 1895. 



The Corresponding Societies Committee were represented by Professor 

 E,. Meldola, Mr. G. J. Symons, Mr. Hopkinson, and Mr. T. V. Holmes 

 (Secretary). The Chairman of the Conference opened the proceedings 

 ■with the following address : — 



Address of the Chairman, G. J. Symons, F.R.S. 



Just as with tlie great Association under whose auspices we meet, so 

 ■with the numerous and intellectual bodies which you represent — each 

 has a double duty. The duty to humanity of doing its best to in- 

 terpret truthfully the lessons of the world in which we live, so that by 

 increasing knowledge future generations may learn to make better use of 

 its marvellous stores, and perchance repair some of the waste which has. 

 gone on in the past, and which is still going on. Our other duty is 

 to advance the cause of the ^■arious bodies with which we are connected. 

 Of course you know this as well as I do, but in these days when a universal 

 genius has become an impossibility, and progress can be effected only by 

 limiting one's work to some corner of the field of science, there is great 

 danger of specialisation leading to forgetfulness of generalisation, and 

 of what is the end of all research. You all know the necessity for inter- 

 communication, which in the early years of this century rendered the 

 formation of the British Association imperative, and you know how that 

 need was met. I hold that this Conference and the work which it is doing 

 are an equal necessity of the present time. How could workers in any 

 branch of science know all that was being done by local effort without 

 our index to your proceedings 1 The world is the better for the knowledge 

 which you gain being rendered generally accessible, and both the British 



