CORRESPONDING SOCIETIES 
COMMITTEE. 
Report of Committee (Mr. T. SHepparp, Vice-Chairman; Dr. F. A. 
Baruer, Mr. O. G. S. Crawrorp, Prof. P. F. Kenpauu, Mr. 
Marx L. Syxes, Dr. CuareNcE Tierney, Prof. W. W. Warts, 
Mr. W. WurrakeEr, and the Prestpent and GENERAL OFFICERS).* 
Drawn up by the General Secretaries. 
1 As reported last year, the Committee co-opted the following representatives 
of the scientific societies of Liverpool and its neighbourhood to assist in pre- 
paring the programme of the Liverpool Conference of Delegates :— 
Prof. P. G. H. Boswell, Liverpool Geological Society. 
Prof. W. J. Dakin, Liverpool Biological Society. 
Prof. P. M. Roxby, Liverpool Geographical Society. 
Dr. H. F. Coward, Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. 
Prof. F. E. Weiss, Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. 
Mr. T. W. Sowerbutts, Manchester Geographical Society. 
Mr. W. H. Barker, Manchester Geographical Society. 
Mr. J. S. Broome, Warrington Literary and Philosophical Society. 
Tue Committee recommended to the Council that at the Conference of Delegates 
at the Liverpool meeting the President should be Professor H. H. Turner, 
F.R.S., Savilian Professor of Astronomy in the University of Oxford; the 
Local Vice-President Professor P. G. H. Boswell, Professor of Geology in the 
Universitx of Liverpool ; and the Local Secretary Miss Edith Warhurst. These 
nominations were accepted, and the Committee desires to express its thanks to 
these officers for their conduct of the business of the Conference, of which a 
report follows. 
After discussion with officers of Section M (Agriculture) and representatives 
of the Societies in question, the Committee recommended, and Council resolved, 
that the National Farmers’ Union and the Central Landowners’ Association 
be added to the list of affiliated Societies; and that the local branch of each 
in the district where the British Association’s meeting is held be empowered 
to send a delegate to the Conference of that year. 
The Conchological Society, the Gilbert White Fellowship, the Scottish Marine 
Biological Association, and the Worthing Archeological Society were recom- 
mended for admission as Correspending Societies, together with the following — 
Societies, if qualified, which sent delegates to the Hull meeting, but had not 
since applied specifically for admission :—Bath and West and Southern Counties 
Society, Huddersfield Naturalist, Photographic, and Antiquarian Society, 
Stirling Natural History and Archeological Society, Manchester Astronomical 
Society, Manchester Entomological Society. 
The subject of ‘ Peat Beds and Submerged Forests,’ commended by Section C 
(Geology) for systematic research by the Corresponding Societies, having been 
referred at the Liverpool Meeting to a Committee of the British Association 
on Quaternary Peats. the Corresponding Societies are requested to put them- 
selves in communication with the Secretary of that Committee, Mr. L. H. Tonks, 
Red Bank House, Birtle, near Bury. 
The Committee asks that it may be reappointed, with a grant of 40/., for the 
preparation of its Report and Bibliography. 
