498 CORRESPONDING SOCIETIES. 
The Committee of Recommendations did not advise any action upon this 
resolution. 
A discussion on ‘Regional Surveys’ was arranged for thg second meeting 
of the Conference on Tuesday, September 13, 1921. 
Professor GrppES, who spoke first, described regional survey. It was, he 
said, an inquiry into everything around them, an outlook near and far, a prying 
into every detail of nature and of human activities as well. It reached out 
through education into action. It was geography and all its sub-sciences of 
geology, meteorology, and other physical studies. It was biology, too, the study 
of the plant and animals, and biology in relation to man. It was anthropology 
and archeology, and thus psychology also. It was economics, the key of econo- 
mics, for it observed all forms of human effort from the earliest occupations 
to the most complex of modern ones. They were out for the study of life 
itself. Their chief aim was civic development; their object was to make the 
world something better than it was before. 
Mr. Harotp Praxe said that the first thing to be done was to define the 
district to be surveyed, and he advocated the maximum of maps and illustrations 
with the minimum of text. He also gave important examples of how one 
survey might throw considerable light upon another. 
Mrs. Fraser Davies exhibited and described specimens of regional surveys. 
One of the problems she said was to secure co-operation between the teachers 
in the schools and the scientific men outside. 
Professor H. J. Freure spoke of the need of the British Association, if it 
were to maintain its place for the advancement of science, to provide for the 
synthetic point of view, and he emphasised the importance of the Conference 
of Delegates for bringing together specialisms lest they diverged unduly and 
fell apart into things that were almost ridiculous. 
Mr. ALexANDER FarRQUHARSON pointed out the connection of the regional 
survey with the general movement for an increase in the knowledge and feeling 
in citizenship. 
Sir Francis Ocinvie said that the essential point in regional survey was 
that there should be room for diversity of attitude, subject, study and investi- 
gation and mode of record. It would be of the utmost value if a selection 
could be made of the methods of representing the various interests that cropped 
up in regional surveys, and these were given as much publicity as possible. 
Other points of view, including the medical aspect, were also touched upon, 
and the following resolution was passed :— 
‘That this meeting of Delegates of the Corresponding Societies of the 
British Association approves the movement of regional survey, of which 
examples have been exhibited and explained; and towards the promotion 
and initiation of such surveys they invite a further exhibition at next 
year’s meeting (at Hull) with discussion towards methods of presentment, 
Xe. 
‘It also desires to aid co-operation among Scientific Societies, educational 
institutions, public libraries, museums, &c., with civic societies and munici- 
palities, or otherwise, towards the preparation of surveys, and their due 
preservation and exhibition, for educational, general, and municipal 
purposes. 
‘Note as to particulars : The following have undertaken to give informa- 
tion: Mrs. Fraser Davies, Le Play House, 65 Belgrave Road, 8.W.1; 
Professor H. J. Fleure, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth; 
Professor P. Geddes, Department of Sociology and Civics, University of 
Bombay; and Miss Ritchie, Outlook Tower, Edinburgh.’ 
The Vice-President then took the chair, and a brief discussion followed as 
to the advisability of affiliated and associated societies paying a subscription 
to the British Association, the matter being referred to the Corresponding 
Societies Committee. F 
Professor Myres (General Secretary of the Association) then explained the 
various alternatives that had been suggested with regard to the holding of the 
Conference of Delegates in the year 1924, in the event of the Association 
meeting, as proposed, in Canada. 
