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was noticeable, but one of the members of the Committee, the 

 Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, brought the matter before the meeting, 

 and suggested that the meetings of the Delegates were to be 

 regarded as equivalent to meetings of a Section, and should be 

 advertised on the same footing, the Chairman's title being changed 

 to that of President. This was duly approved, and the Committee 

 are to do what they can in the matter. 



There is at the present time a strong movement — with which 

 I am not fully in sympathy — for the formation of sanctuaries in 

 different parts of the country for the preservation of wild animals 

 and plants. This subject was referred to by Mr. Mark Webb 

 (Selborne Society) who read a paper upon the " Brent Valley Bird 

 Sanctuary," and indirectly it was discussed by Mr. Horwood 

 (Leicester Museum) who dealt with " State Protection of Wild 

 Plants." Mr. Claridge Druce brought before the meeting a 

 resolution " That this meeting of Delegates cordially approves of 

 the objects of the Society recently established for the purpose of 

 obtaining areas containing interesting specimens of flora and 

 fauna and also objects of geological interest." This was carried 

 unanimously, I being unwilling to put forward my views, having 

 reason to believe that they are not those of members of this Club. 



Following upon the discussion of last year upon the Study 

 of Fungi by Local Societies, Miss A. I.orrain Smith (British 

 Mycological Society) reported on the results she had obtained by 

 sending round a circular to the Secretaries of a number of Local 

 Natural History Societies asking certain questions, among which 

 was one as to the number of members interested in Mycology, and 

 if any lists of fungi or papers on them had been published by 

 them. Over ioo Societies were thus circularised, and of these 

 four acknowledged the receipt of the circular ! 



Mr. A. Newlands (Inverness Scientific Society and Field Club) 

 read a paper upon " Water Power and Industrial Development in 

 the Highlands of Scotland," which, although interesting and 

 somewhat technical, was not, in my opinion, one that should have 

 been accepted by the Committee of Delegates. 



