CORRESPONDING SOCIETIES. 781 



Corresponding Societies Committee. — Report of the Committee, 

 consisting of Mr. W. Whitaker (Chairman), Mr. Wilfred 

 Mark Webb (Secretary), Eev, J. 0. Bevan, Sir Edward 

 Brabrook, SirH. G. Fobdham, Dr. J. Gr. Garson, Principal 

 E. H. Griffiths, Dr. A. C. Saddon, Mr. T. V. Holmes, 

 Mr. J. HoPKiNSON, Mr. A. L. Lewis, Eev. T. E. E. 

 Stebbing, and the President and General Officers. 

 (Drawn up by the Secretary.) 



The Committee recommends that the Warrington Society should be 

 made an Associated Society. 



Sir T. H. Holland, K.O.I.E., D.Sc, F.E.S., has kindly under- 

 taken to act as Chairman at the Conference of Delegates to be held 

 at Manchester, and has chosen ' The Organisation of Scientific 

 Societies ' as the subject of his Address. 



Mr. William Whitaker, B.A., F.R.S., has been so good as to 

 accept the Vice-Chairmanship. 



The Committee has chosen the following subjects for discussion 

 at the Conference: — 



' Local Museums ' (suggested by the Selborne Society), to be 

 introduced by Dr. W. E. Hoyle, M.A., and ' Colour Standards ' (pro- 

 posed by the British Mycological Society), to be introduced by Mr. 

 J. Eamsbottom, M.A. 



The Committee asks to be reappointed, and applies for a grant 

 of 25L 



Report of the Conference of Delegates of Corrcujwnding Societies held 

 at Manchester on Wednesday, September 8, and Friday, Septem- 

 ber 10, 1915. 

 Chairman . . Sir Thomas Holknd, K.C.I. E., D.Sc, F.R.S. 

 Vice-Chair man . William Whitaker, B.A., F.E.S. 

 Secretary . . Wilfred Mark Webb, F.L.S. 



On taking the chair. Sir Thomas Holland called \ipon the Secretary to make 

 an announcement which was to the effect that the General Committee, on the 

 recommendation of the Council, had .sanctioned an alteration in tlie Rules of 

 the British Association, subject to the report of tiie Committee of Recommenda- 

 tions, so that the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Conference of Delegates 

 would in future have the title of President and Vice-President respectively. 

 This information having been received with applause. Sir Thomas Holland 

 proceeded to deliver his Address on 



The Organisation of Scientific Societies. 



Amono- the many lessons we learn in every great war there is always one 

 that stands out prominently as something of fundamental and national import- 

 ance. In the Crimea our shortcomings in commissariat organisation were demon- 

 strated with painful emphasis. In South Africa we learnt something of the 

 way in which the initiative of the individual, naturally more prominent in the 

 amateur soldier, triumphs, under unforeseen circumstances, over any system 

 fixed by formal and traditional discipline. The great war now in progress will 

 result more completely than any of its puny predecessors in recasting our national 

 ideals — economic, political, and military. 



