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get the price of the Geological Survey Maps reduced to the old 

 figures. It appears that while the price remains the same, a new 

 series of maps, uncoloured but printed with the boundary lines of 

 the formations, has been or is being issued, and that the cost of 

 these maps is the same as that of the plain Ordnance Survey 

 Sheets. 



The Chairman of the Conference, Professor J. W. Gregory, 

 gave an address upon "The Scientific Misappropriation of 

 Popular Terms," in which he urged that Science will lose more by 

 the misuse of current English than by the invention of new terms 

 for new ideas and new materials. 



Mr. Mark "Webb (Selborne Society) next read a paper upon 

 the " Protection of Plants," in which he suggested that con- 

 siderable areas of land should be reserved and fenced in, and that 

 keepers should be employed to guard these botanical sanctuaries. 

 In the discussion, which was postponed until the next meeting 

 owing to want of time, several speakers discussed the question 

 from a less extravagant point of view than that taken by Mr. 

 Webb, and reference was made to the powers exercised by several 

 local authorities for preventing the destruction of wild plants in 

 the open spaces under their control. 



Mr. Harold Wager (British Mycological Society) then opened 

 a discussion upon the stud) - of Fungi by loeal Societies, with a 

 view to getting assistance from the various societies in working out 

 the natural history and distribution of the species. He also 

 exhibited a large number of beautiful water-colour drawings and 

 photographs of British species. A most interesting discussion 

 followed, in which a number of well-known Mycologists took 

 part. Another discussion upon "Co-ordination in the work of the 

 local Scientific Societies " was opened by Sir Daniel Morris 

 (Bournemouth Nat. Hist. Soc), in which several delegates took 

 part. 



Your representative reported to the delegates on the work 

 done by the Special Committee appointed " to formulate a 



