CONFERENCE OF DELEGATES OF 
CORRESPONDING SOCIETIES 
Tue Conference was held in the Lord Mayor’s Rooms, Hastings Street, 
Leicester, on September 7 and 12, under the presidency of Dr. R. E. 
Mortimer Wheeler, F.S.A., 43 delegates attending representing 52 
societies, in addition to a large audience. 
Thursday, September 7. 
The President conveyed the congratulations of the delegates to the 
Manchester Statistical Society upon the recent attainment of its centenary. 
Mr. Frank H. Roby, representing the Society, responded. 
The delegates considered the following report communicated by the 
Secretary, which was approved and adopted. 
“Committee to take cognisance of proposals relating to National 
Parks by the Government and other authorities and bodies concerned, 
and to advise the Council as to action if desirable.’ 
The Chairman and Secretary report that no proposals have arisen during 
the past year requiring the consideration of the Committee ; and in view 
of the improbability of any such proposals arising in the immediate future 
under the prevailing financial stringency it is recommended that the 
matter might suitably be referred to the Corresponding Societies’ Com- 
mittee, with power to co-opt thereto competent members for the special 
consideration of the subject should occasion arise. 
ADDRESS ON 
THE CENTRALISATION AND CO-ORDINATION 
OF RESEARCH IN ITS RELATION TO LEARNED 
SOCIETIES 
By Dr. R. E. M. WHEELER, 
President of the Conference. 
WE live in a period of feverish co-operation. We co-operate to wage 
war, to inflict peace, to abolish old frontiers and to create an infinitude of 
new ones. But whatever the difficulties of political or economic co- 
operation, an effective co-ordination of effort on an international scale 
within the limits of any scientific discipline should be practicable without 
a disproportionate expenditure of effort. ‘That difficulties of one kind 
or another will indeed arise even in so impersonal a pursuit as that of 
knowledge is, of course, inevitable so long as man remains a political 
animal. For instance, quite recently, in a branch of science which shall 
