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ON THE 



STATE OF SCIENCE. 



Corresponding Societies Committee. — Report of the Committee, con- 

 sisting of Professor K. Meldola (Chairman), Mr. T. V. Holmes 

 (Secretary), Mr. P'rancis Galton, Sir Douglas Gtalton, Dr. J. Gr. 

 GrAESON, Sir J. Evans, Mr. J. Hopkinson, Mr. W. Whitaker, 

 Mr. Gr. J. Symons, Professor T. Gr. Bonney, Mr. Cuthbert Peek, 

 Mr. Horace T. Brown, Kev. J. 0. Bevan, and Professor W. W. 

 Watts. 



The Corresponding Societies Committee of the British Association 

 beg leave to submit to the General Committee the following Report of 

 the proceedings of the Conference held at Bristol. 



The Council nominated Mr. "W. Whitaker, F.R.S., Chairman, and 

 Mr. T. V. Holmes, Secretary to the Bristol Conference. These nomina- 

 tions were confirmed by the General Committee at a meeting held at 

 Bristol on Wednesday, September 7. The meetings of the Conference 

 were held at University College on Thursday, September 8, and Tuesday, 

 September 13, at 3 p.m. The following Corresponding Societies nominated 

 as delegates to represent them at the Bristol meeting : — 



Andersonian Naturalists' Society . . Professor M. Laurie, D.Sc. 



Belfast Naturalists' Field Club. . . William Gray, M.R.I. A, 



Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Alexander Tate, M.Inst.C.E. 



Society 



Berwickshire Naturalists' Club . . . G. P. Hughes, .J. P. 



Birmingham Natural History and Philoso- Alfred Browett. 



phical Society. 



Bristol Naturalists' Society . . . F. W. Stoddart. 



Buchan Field Club John Gray, B.Sc. 



Burton-on-Trent Natural History and Philip B. Mason, F.L.S. 



Archffiological Society. 



Caradoc and Severn Valley Field Club . Professor W. W. Watts, F.G.S. 



CardiEE Naturalists' Society . . . J. T. Thompson, M.B. 



Chesterfield and Midland Couuties Insti- M. H. Mills, M Inst.C.E. 



tution of Engineers 



