REPORTS 
ON THE 
STATH OF SCIENCE. 
Corresponding Societies’ Committee.—Report of the Committee, con- 
sisting of Professor R. MELpoLA (Chairman), Mr. T. V. HOLMES 
(Secretary), Mr. Francis Gatton, Mr. G. J. Symons, Dr. J. G. 
Garson, Sir Jonn Evans, Mr. J. Hopkinson, Professor T. G. 
Bonney, Mr. W. WaiTaker, Sir CUTHBERT PEEK, Mr. Horace T. 
Brown, Rev. J. O. Bevan, Professor W. W. Watts, and Rev. 
T. R. R. STEBBING. 
Tue Corresponding Societies’ Committee of the British Association 
beg leave to submit to the General Committee the following Report. 
The Committee have pleasure in being able to state that the resolution 
passed at the Bristol Conference of Delegates last year, respecting the 
desirability of securing the co-operation of the Coastguard for carrying on 
systematic observations on Coast Erosion, having been adopted by the 
British Association, has been favourably received by the Admiralty. The 
Committee were informed that the Council of the British Association 
appointed a Committee to consider and report on the proposal. The 
Committee having reported favourably, the Council approached the 
Admiralty, and in their Report give an account of their application. 
The necessary forms, prepared by the Committee of the Council, have 
been issued by the Admiralty. Many have already been returned, filled 
in by the Coastguard. As a knowledge of their nature may be useful to 
the Corresponding Societies, and may tend to promote uniformity in the 
Observations made by such of their members as are interested in Coast 
Erosion, copies of Forms I. and IT. are appended. 
The Committee regret to have to report that the East of Scotland 
Union of Naturalists’ Societies (which was founded in 1884) has ceased to 
exist. The Secretary of the Union, in reply to inquiries as to the cause 
of its dissolution, replied :—‘I think that the chief reason of the downfall 
of this Union is that the majority of those men who originally founded 
it and who took an active part in its work are now deaa, and that those 
left do not see the same necessity for combined work.’ He added that 
many of the smaller societies which belonged to the Union perished 
through the decease of the older members and the want of a supply of 
new ones from the younger people. 
