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Vancouver. He hoped the Council would do all they could to get this privilege 
for delegates. 
In reply to questions as to the authority of delegates to represent the British 
Association in their own districts, it was pointed out by Professor J. L. Myres 
(General Secretary) that as delegates are appointed not by the British Associa- 
tion but by their respective Societies for the purposes of the annual Conference, 
they are not in any sense accredited representatives of the Association ; but that 
at the Hull Conference a resolution was submitted that the Association should 
‘invite the delegates sent to the Conference by the Corresponding Societies to 
render any assistance in their power in making known, in their respective 
districts, the objects and methods of the British Association, and to communicate 
to the Secretary of the Association the names and addresses of scientific workers 
and others to whom the preliminary programme of the next meeting should he — 
sent. This recommendation had been adopted by the Association, and was in 
force. He had some hope that delegates would respond to this invitation, which 
had been made at their own request, and undertook that it should be brought 
to the notice of Societies which had not sent delegates to the present Conference. 
Delegates could obtain from the office of the Association for distribution copies 
of a printed statement of its objects and methods. 
A discussion followed on the Function of Local Scientific Societies in regard 
to Schemes of Town Planning. 
Professor P. Abercrombie (University of Liverpool) gave an address on 
‘Town Planning.’ He traced the history of the ‘ town’ from ancient to modern 
times, showing that the community was all-important formerly and the individual 
sacrificed. The growth of the town was in close touch with the growth of 
industrial progress. The ‘Town Planning Act’ of 1909 gave powers of road 
design. Formerly, country roads were the only visible suggestion of arteries. 
Scientific study of the community is required for civic and regional survey. 
Far less damage would be done to villages if the interests were safeguarded and 
new roads made round a village instead of destroying places of historic interest. 
Mr. G. L. Pepler (Ministry of Health, Whitehall), in his opening remarks, 
hoped that local Societies would take an interest in the subject and help the 
local authorities by making civic and regional surveys. Reports could be — 
made as to land suitable for market-gardens, &c., so these places would not — 
be built upon. : 
Mr. Webb Shennan (Wirral) spoke of the help given in the Wirral district 
to local authorities by landowners giving land suitable for new roads and 
expansion of old ones. _ 
Mr. T. Sheppard (Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union) moved a vote of thanks © 
to the speakers, and stated that all local Societies were in sympathy with Pro-— 
fessor Abercrombie’s schemes. 
Mr. Mark L. Sykes (Manchester Microscopical Society) moved a vote of. 
thanks to Professor Turner for the genial way in which he had presided over © 
the Conference. The thanks were heartily accorded. . 
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