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trespass upon its territory. For his own part he was always pleased 

 to co-operate with his Scottish friends, and had done so on the question 

 of rainfall, and it would appear that in this Erratic Blocks Committee the 

 exclusion of Scotland was the result of deference to her susceptibilities. 



Mr. Murdoch replied that it was quite true that for many years a 

 Boulder Committee had existed in vScotland, but the work had been 

 entirely under the control and direction of Mr. Milne Home, who was 

 now dead, and who, for some time before his death, had been unable to 

 get about the country. Mr. Milne Home's Committee liad issued eight 

 yearly reports, which were very valuable, as many of the boulders were 

 not only tabulated, but figured. But for some time the work had been 

 practically at a standstill. 



The Chairman remarked that in that case it was certainly desirable 

 that steps should be taken to have Scotland included. 



Deemster Gill said that the boulders of the Isle of Man were being 

 noted by the Society to which he belonged, but not, he thought, by any 

 extraneous body. 



Professor Merivale remarked that for some time they had been dis- 

 cussing matters connected with Section 0. He wished, befoi'e the meeting 

 ended, to say a few words on Flameless Explosives (Section G). The 

 North of England Institute of Mining Engineers had been continuing 

 their experiments, and had published one report. They were still going 

 on with their labours, and another report would be published shortly. 

 He had nothing to say then as to the results of their experiments. 



The Chairman supposed that the Conference was, as usual, in favour 

 of an application to the General Committee for a grant of 30/. to enable 

 the Corresponding Societies Committee to carry on its work. 



Professor Meldola moved that an application for a grant of 30/. should 

 be made, remarking that the amount named was only just sufficient to 

 cover their expenses. The proposition was seconded by Mr. Hopkinson 

 and carried unanimously. 



Second Conference, September 17, 1895. 



The Corresponding Societies Committee was represented by Dr. 

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

 Holmes (Secretary). 



Dr. Garson said that Mr. Symons could not take the chair, as he v/as 

 then at the meeting of the Committee of Recommendations. It was 

 usual at their Second Conference to consider the recommendations from 

 the various Sections respecting work in which it was thought the Corre- 

 sponding Societies might usefully co-operate. He would therefore, in the 

 first place, call upon the representative of Section A. 



Section A. 



Mr. White Wallis stated that Mr. Symons, who had been chosen the 

 representative of Section A, had asked him to attend the Conference in 

 his stead. It had been resolved that the Committees for investigating 

 Earth Tremors and Seismological Phenomena in Japan should be merged 

 into one with the title of ' Committee for Seismological Observations.' Its 

 members would be Mr. G. J. Symons, chairman; Mr. C. Davison and Mr. 

 J. Milne, secretaries ; Lord Kelvin, Professor W. C. Adams, Mr. C. H. 

 Bottomley, Sir F. J. Bramwell, Professor G. H. Darwin, Mr. Horace 

 Darwin, Mr. G. F. Deacon, Professor J. A. Ewing, Professor A. H. Green, 

 Professor G. C. Knott, Professor G. A. Lebour, Professor R. Meldola, 



