CONFERENCE OF DELEGATES OF 

 CORRESPONDING SOCIETIES 



The Conference met in the Exhibition Buildings, York, on September i 

 and 6, and in the absence of the President, Sir David Prain, through 

 illness, was presided over by Dr. A. B. Rendle, who read the President's 

 Address (below) after the following resolution had been unanimously- 

 passed by the delegates : 



' That the warm greetings of the Delegates of Corresponding 

 Societies assembled in conference at York be sent to the President, 

 Sir David Prain, with an expression of their sincere sympathy with him 

 in his illness, and earnest hopes for his complete and speedy recovery.' 

 The Conference was attended by a large audience, and 53 delegates 

 signed the register, representing 59 societies. 



Thursday, September 1. 



ADDRESS ON 



LOCAL SOCIETIES AND THE CONSERVATION 

 OF WILD LIFE 



By Lt.-Col. Sir David Prain, C.M.G., C.I.E., F.R.S., 

 President of the Conference. 



Last year the Corresponding Societies' Committee recommended the 

 Council of the British Association to instruct the President of this York 

 Conference to direct attention to ' the assistance local societies can render 

 to the preservation of the amenities of their own areas and especially of the 

 flora and the fauna of the countryside.' We know now that the time was 

 ripe. The recommendation was accepted and acted upon by the Council 

 of the Association on November 6, 1931 ; on November 27 the Council 

 for the Preservation of Rural England set up a Wild Plant Conservation 

 Board. 



The message of the Association to its corresponding societies is precise. 

 It is not now necessary to explain why local societies should help to preserve 

 their local amenities and the flora and the fauna of their areas. Members 

 of all local societies share the views expressed by the President of the Council 

 for the Preservation of Rural England to a local society at Harrogate in 

 1930, and by the Chairman of the Estates Committee of the National Trust 

 in his Rickman Godlee Lecture at University College, London, in 1931- 

 What delegates to this Conference are asked to do is to beg their respective 

 societies to consider how they ca7i assist in preserving the amenities of their 

 own areas and especially the flora and the fauna of their own sections of the 

 countryside. 



