CONFERENCE OF DELEGATES 
OF CORRESPONDING SOCIETIES. 
LIVERPOOL, 1923. 
The Conference met in the Civil Court, St. George’s Hall, Liverpool, on 
Thursday, September 13, at 2 p.m., Professor H. H. Turner, F.R.S., in the 
chair. Thirty-nine delegates were present, representing forty-nine Societies. 
The President addressed the delegates on 
The Work and Relations of Corresponding Societies. 
Sundry proposals submitted to the Conference by delegates and others 
were discussed briefly, and referred to the Corresponding Societies Committees 
for examination and report. The Conference adjourned until Tuesday, Sep- 
tember 18, at 2 P.M. 
At the adjourned meeting the following recommendations, submitted by the 
Corresponding Societies Committee, were adopted, and forwarded to the 
‘Committee of Recommendations :— 
(a) To represent te His Majesty’s Government the urgent need for more 
ample provision for the Science Museum, and for closer co-ordination between 
the principal national collections of scientific material. 
(6) To represent to His Majesty’s Government, in view of recent proposals to 
utilise for naval, military, or commercial purposes sites of historic or scientific 
interest or of natural beauty, such as Avebury, Holmbury Hill, and Lulworth 
Cove and its neighbourhood, the urgent need of more effective protection of 
such sites from disfigurement or obstruction. 
(c) To request the Director-General of the Ordnance Survey to reconsider his 
decision to discontinue the issue by the Ordnance Survey of quarter-sheets of 
the six-inch map on the ground that, if quarter-sheets are not available, teachers. 
students, and others engaged in various kinds of research on local and regional 
distributions will be put to expense and inconvenience in providing themselves 
with the sheets necessary for their work. 
(d) To recommend that the publications of scientific societies should conform 
so far as possible to a standard size of page for convenience in dealing with 
off-prints ; and that for octavo publications the size of the British Association’s 
Report be adopted as the standard. 
(e) To urge the adoption by scientific societies of the bibliographical recom- 
mendations contained in the current Report of the Zoological Publications 
Committee. 
(f) To call the attention of local scientific societies to the need for prompt 
and systematic supervision, in the interests of scientific record, of all sections 
and other excavations which were opened during the construction of new roads 
or other public works. 
(g) That this Conference suggests for the consideration of the Council that 
the change of the British gallon to 4 litres would be objectionable, because the 
‘gallon of water weighs 10 lb., which is an important fact in physical and engi- 
neering practice. 
Various proposals were discussed for conducting the business of the Con- 
ference of 1924 in view of the visit of the British Association to Toronto, and 
it was resolved :— 
To recommend the General Committee to accept the invitation received from 
the President of the Museums Association to hold the Conference of Delegates 
in connection with that Association’s meeting at Wembley in July 1924, without 
prejudice to any provision which may be possible for a Conference of Repre- 
sentatives of local societies at the Toronto meeting. 
Mr. Grierson Macara (Greenock Philosophical Society) asked if the Canadian 
oevernment would be willing to allow delegates to the British Association 
Bheetings in Toronto, 1924, to have free railway tickets from Toronto to 
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