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would now call for any nomination of new members. A long 

 list of proposed members was then read out by the secretaries, 

 with their proposers and seconders, and the chairman having 

 put them formally to the meeting, they were declared duly 

 elected. 



This concluded the business of the evening, but until a late 

 hour the company remained, interested in the variety of exhibits 

 that crowded the rooms. 



The second meeting of the Winter Session was held on Wednes- 

 day evening, November 19th, when the President (Mr. William 

 Gray, M.R.I. A.) opened the meeting with some remarks on the 

 work of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 

 in connection with societies such as our local Field Club. He 

 said that, with a view of securing the co-operation of provincial 

 societies, the British Association has made arrangements by 

 which all qualified societies may become identified with the 

 Association and be acknowledged as " corresponding societies." 

 Our Field Club has been a corresponding society of the Asso- 

 ciation for many years, and as such has yearly sent up a delegate 

 to represent the Club at the meeting of the Association. One 

 committee of the Association is known as the " Corresponding 

 Societies Committee," and in its annual report publishes a list of 

 all papers, lectures, or other communications published by the 

 corresponding societies during the past year, provided that such 

 papers deal with subjects coming within the scope of one or 

 other of the sections of the Association. At every annual 

 meeting of the Association one or more conferences are held 

 between the Corresponding Societies Committee and the 

 delegates representing the provincial societies throughout the 

 three kingdoms, the object being to consider how far the work 

 of the various societies can be rendered helpful in promoting 

 the purposes of the Association, and to discuss all suggestions 

 for the systematising of methods of investigation, and the 



