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the General Committee and his club or society would be 

 classed as a Corresponding Society of the British Associa- 

 tion, and its papers would be registered in an index attached 

 to the Annual Report. The Delegates would hold meetings 

 of their own under a chairman of scientific standing, when 

 the general interests and work of their respective Clubs could 

 be considered and compared. These revised rules have since 

 our meeting been referred back to the Council, and have 

 probably become standing rules of the Association. I trust 

 that the members of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, as 

 well as other local Clubs throughout the island, may see the 

 importance of these arrangements, as furthering the interests 

 of science, by systematising and registering the work of the 

 corresponding Clubs, in one of the most important volumes 

 of scientific transactions published for each year. 



I suggest that when they have received the sanction of 

 the General Committee of the Association a copy of the 

 rules be attached to the first following Transactions of our 

 Club for the convenience of our future delegates. I 

 attended the last meeting of the General Committee of the 

 Congress, and was much gratified at the cordial invitation 

 which Sir Charles Tupper and Principal Dawson brought to 

 us from the Canadian Government, to hold the Congress of 

 1884 at Montreal ; promising to defray a large share of the 

 travelling expenses of each attending member. I had regis- 

 tered my name several months ago, and I am glad to say that 

 500 other names had been received for the meeting of 1884. 



Apropos of the meetings of scientific societies it would be 

 remiss to overlook the Fisheries Exhibition, which, for some 

 months past, has been held in London. The magni- 

 tude of the arrangements and conveniences, and the cosmo- 

 politan interest shown by foreign nations and our colonies, 

 place this clearly in the first position among international 

 exhibitions of the kind. The important question affecting 

 the provision of wholesome and cheap food for an increasing 

 population has naturally directed the attention of those in- 

 terested in the welfare of this and other nations to the vast 

 area of the ocean and its hidden wealth. In and around 



