Report of Delegate, &c. 37 



address dealt chiefly with the importance of the Registration of 

 Type Specimens in Local Museums in order that reference to 

 such specimens might be readily attainable by those interested 

 in the particular domain of science to which they belonged. 



After a long discussion, the Chairman called on the 



Rev. J. O. Bevan to open the subject accepted of him by the 

 Corresponding Societies' Committee for discussion at this 

 Conference : — " That the Committees of the Corresponding 

 Societies be invited to lay before their members the necessity 

 of carrying on a systematic survey of their counties in respect 

 to ethnology, ethnography, botany, meteorology, ornithology, 

 archaeology, folklore, etc." 



The discussion resulted in the appointment of a small 

 Committee, whose report, as follows, was adopted at the second 

 Conference. 



" The following provisional list of subjects, together with the 

 names of some of the Societies which have already done work 

 in connection therewith, and the names of persons who would 

 be willing to receive communications thereon is recommended 

 by the Conference of Delegates for adoption by the Correspond- 

 ing Societies' Committee of the British Association, and to be 

 issued by them to the Corresponding Societies in the hope that 

 those Societies not already engaged in similar work may take 

 part in so much of it as comes within their scope, in order 

 that the work may be extended over a wide area, and be done 

 as far as possible upon a uniform system. 



" Registration of Type Specimens," Dr. A. Smith Woodward. 



" Coast Erosion," Mr. W. Whitaker. 



" Record of Bore Holes, Wells, and Sections," North of 

 England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, and 

 Prof. J. H. Merivale. 



"Tracing the Course of Underground Water," Yorkshire 

 Geological and Polytechnic Society, and Mr. A. R. Dwerry- 

 house. 



■' Erratic Blocks," Yorkshire Naturalists 1 Union, and Pro- 

 fessor P. F. Kendall. 



