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boulders were rapidly disappearing, and that the Reports of the 
Committee would soon be the only evidence of the existence of 
glaciated blocks or of the direction of the ice. 
Geological Photography.—Mr. A. S. Reid said that their 
Committee had applied for a grant for the purpose of mounting the 
photographs, and a systematic method had been agreed upon, so that 
the prints could be mounted and handled without injury. The subject 
of lantern slides had been mentioned, but they had decided that the 
collecting of these did not come within their province. 
h Tremors.—The Chairman stated that this Committee 
had during the past year been collecting apparatus and diagrams of 
apparatus for recording earth tremors. They had not yet come to 
any decision as to the best form of instrument, and they would be 
glad of any suggestions from those interested in the subject.* 
SecTIon D, 
Disappearance of Native Plants.—Your Delegate reported 
that the Committee had been reappointed. From what had been 
said at the last meeting of the Conference, he said that he might 
conclude that it was the wish of the delegates that the reports from 
the North of England and Scotland should be incorporated in next 
year’s report. The Committee for investigating the Invertebrate Fauna 
and Cryptogamic Flora of the British Isles had not been reappointed. 
Destruction of Wild Birds’ Eggs.—Dr. Vachell said that 
it had been suggested to him by Professor Meldola, that the action 
of the Committee might be strengthened if the matter were again 
brought under the notice of the local Societies throughout the country, 
through the delegates at the present Conference, and he therefore 
detailed the facts which had led to the proposal for the formation of 
a Committee. In March, 1890, the Cardiff Naturalists’ Society had 
visited the island of Grassholme, and while there observing the habits 
of some of the wild birds, a number of young men from one of H.M. 
steamships had landed and shot puffins and gulls, and wantonly 
destroyed a large number of the eggs. The affair had been fully 
reported in the ‘ Daily Graphic’ at the time. As there seemed t®be 
4 wholesale destruction of wild birds’ eggs going on, the matter had 
been brought forward last year in Parliament by Mr. Pease, and at 
the time he (Dr. Vachell) had done what he could to bring it under 
the notice of the local Societies. He had also called the attention 
of their Members of Parliament to the subject, but the latter had 
taken the view that it was not very serious, and that when boys were 
* The Secretary of the Committee is Mr. C. Davison, 38, Charlotte Road, 
Birmingham. 
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