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dth December^ 1892. 



Report of Mr. A. Tate, C.E., 



Delegate from Belfast Natural History and Philosophical 

 Society to Meeting of British Association at Edinburgh^ 

 1892, on the Conference of Delegates of the Corresponding 

 Societies at that Meeting. 



The Conference held two meetings, which were presided over 

 by Professor Meldola. Ten other members of the Correspond- 

 ing Societies' Committee and Delegates from thirty-one Societies 

 attended. 



I have been furnished, on your behalf, with a copy of the 

 report of the proceedings of this Conference, and also with a 

 list of the various Committees appointed at the late meeting of 

 the Association. The Secretary, in sending them, with request 

 that they should be brought under your notice, adds : — " I am 

 also requested by the Corresponding Societies' Committee to 

 ask you to urge upon your Society, and its members indi- 

 vidually, the importance of taking part in the work of as many 

 of the Committees mentioned in the accompanying list as may 

 be practicable in your district." 



I will mention a few of the Committees included in the list 

 referred to, with something in regard to the work already 

 done ; — 



The Application of Photography to the Elucidation of 

 Meteorological Phenomena. 



This Committee was formed in 1^91, at the Cardiff meeting, 

 and already valuable results, especially in regard to cloud forms, 



