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Corresponding Societies Committee.—Report of the Committee, 
consisting of Mr. W. WHITAKER (Chairman), Mr. WILFRED 
Marx Wess (Secretary), Dr. F. A. Barusr, the Rev. J. O. 
BeEvAN, Sir Epwarp Brasrook, Sir H. G. Forpuam, Sir 
THomas Honptann, Mr. T. V. Houmss, Mr. J. Hopkinson, 
Mr. A. L. Lewis, Mr. THoMAS SHEPPARD, the Rev. T. R. R. 
STEBBING, and the PRESIDENT and GENERAL OFFICERS. 
(Drawn up by the Secretary.) 
(fur Committee held a special meeting on January 8, 1918, to con- 
sider the proposal to commandeer the British Museum and passed 
the following resolution, which was sent to Mr. Lloyd George, Sir 
Alfred Mond, Lord Rothermere, and Lord Sudeley: 
‘ The Corresponding Societies Committee of the British Asso- 
ciation which represents provincial societies in the Kingdom 
with an aggregate membership of 46,000 protests against the 
use of the British Museum including the Natural History 
Museum as Departmental Offices. 
‘Apart from the damage to irreplaceable specimens which 
would result and the confusion which would be introduced into 
the whole collection, such a step would stop scientific work of 
great importance to the nation and essential to the successful 
prosecution of the War.’ 
The Conference of Delegates will be held in the apartments of the 
Geological Society, Burlington House, London (by kind permission of 
the Council), on Thursday, July 4. 
Dr. F. A. Bather will be President; Mr. Mark Sykes, Vice- 
President. 
At the first meeting the President will deliver his Address, 
entitled, ‘The Contribution of Local Societies to Adult Education.’ 
Upon this a discussion will be invited. 
Mr. B. B. Woodward, F.L.S., F.G.S., will exhibit a Typomap 
of the British Isles, on which naturalists may record the distribution 
of species. 
The question of ‘ Grants for Regional Museums ’ will be introduced 
by Mr. Percival Westall and discussed. 
At the afternoon meeting Mr. Martin C. Duchesne, F.S.I., will 
open a discussion with a paper on ‘ Afforestation.’ 
The Committee asks to be reappointed and for a grant of 251. 
