SECTIONAL TRANSACTIONS.— D, E. 375 



against it. Recent experimental work in Central Europe and in Britain. 

 Improved control measures based on this work, with some account of progress. 



26. Meeting with Hull Naturalists, when Prof. W. M. Tatteksall 

 gave An Account of the Work of the LancaslLire and Cheshire 

 Fauna Committee. 



The work of this Committee, founded in 1914, is an attempt to enlist the 

 co-operation of the local natural history societies and field clubs in the counties 

 of Lancashire and Cheshire and to co-ordinate their work with a view to a 

 complete faunal survey of tlie area. The societies are asked to collect material 

 and forward it, with the necessary data, to the headquarters of the Committee 

 at the Manchester Aluseum. From here it is sent out to referees and experts 

 for identification, returned by them to headquarters, and redistributed to the 

 societies concerned or to the local museums, as desired. The records are card- 

 catalogued and published in the reports of tlie Committee. The card-catalogue 

 is kept at headquarters and is available for reference to all wor.'jers in the 

 area. 



SECTION E.— GEOGRAPHY. 



(For references to the publication elsewhere of communications entered in the 

 following list of transactions, see p. 409.) 



Thursday, September 7. 



1. Miss E. C. Semple. — The Influence of Geographic Conditions 



upon Ancient Mediterranean Agriculture. 



2. Mrs. H. Ormsbv. — The Danube as a Waterway. 



What is meant by a waterway ? — The geographical conditions affecting the 

 use of a river as a means of transport — To what extent these conditions are 

 important in the case of the Danube — The traffic on the Danube before the 

 War : why it was comparatively so insignificant — The future possibilities of 

 the river as {«) a trans-Continental route, i6) for local traffic. 



3. Presidential Address by Dr. Marion I. Newbigin on Human 



Geography: First Principles and some Applications. 

 (Seep. 94.) 



4. Sir Ppiilip Brocklehurst, Bart. — Through TT Vic/o/'. 



Friday, September 8. 



5. Prof. J. F. Unstead. — The Belt of Political Change in Europe. 



The ' New ' States of Europe form a narrow but continuous belt separating 

 Western Europe from the Russian region — This belt is in several respects 

 transitional between West and East, but has certain cliaracteristics peculiar 

 to it — The consequences of its situation between the maritime West, with a 

 complicated geological history, and the Continental East, with a less disturbed 

 geological past, are traced in its present ethnic conditions and^ its social and 

 political problems. 



6. Mr. Ll. Eodwell Jones. — The Port of Hull: a Geographical 



Study of Port Development. 



Geographical factors concerned in the growth of a port are of two kinds, 

 {n) tliose pertaining to the general hinterland, (b) more local factors — These 

 considerations applied to Hull — The Ouse river system in its relation to Hull^ 



