5(36 KEPURTS ON THE STATE OE SCIENCE. — ll»16. 



APPENDIX II. 



Corresponding K>ocieties Committee. — Report of the Committee, 

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

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

 Brabrook, Sir George Fordham, Dr. J. G. Garson, Prin- 

 cipal E. H. Griffiths, Dr. A. C. Haddon, Mr. T. V. 

 Holmes, Mr. J. Hopkinson, Mr. A. L. Lewis, Eev. 

 T. E. E. Stebbing, and the President and General 

 Officers. {Drawn up hy the Secretary.) 



The Committee recommends that ' The Wimbledon Natural History 

 Society ' and ' The Letchworth and District Naturalists' Society ' 

 should be admitted as Associated Societies. 



Professor G. A. Lebour, M.A., D.Sc, P.G.S., has been appointed 

 President of the Conference of Delegates to be held at Newcastle, and 

 Mr. Thomas Sheppard, M.Sc, F.S.A. (Scot.), has been appointed 

 Vice-President. 



The following subjects will be discussed at the Conference: — 



1. The Encouragement of Public Interest in Science by means 



of Popular Lectures. 



2. The Desirability of forming Federations of Societies with 



Cognate Anns. 



3. The Importance of Kent's Cavern as a National Site. 



The Committee asks to be reappointed with the addition of Sir 

 Thomas Plolland, and applies for a grant of 251. 



Report of the Conference of Delegates of Correspondinfi Societies held 

 at Newcastle-on-Tyne on Wednesday, September 6, and Fridaij, 

 September 8. 



President: Professor G. A. Lebour, M. A., D.Sc, F.G.S. 

 Vice-President: Thomas Sheppard, M.Sc, F.G.S. , F.S.A. Scot. 

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



First Meeting, Wednesday, September 6. 



The Chair was talcen by Professor Lebuur, who delivered tlic following 

 Preside)itial Address : — 



Co-operation. 



Quite a number of our Corresponding Societies are either entirely or in part 

 (if the nature of Naturalists' Field Clubs, and it is to these that this Address 

 is chiefly directed. The great specialised Societies of London and elsewhere 

 to some extent conform to the spirit of the Chaiter of the Eoyal Society as 

 expounded by De Morgan in his Budget of I'orado.wy, viz. ' that all who arc 

 lit should be allowed to promote natural knowledge in association, from and 

 after the time at which they are both fit and willing.' In other words, a 

 certain amount of special knowledge is essential to membership. 



