SOUTH-EASTERN UNION OF SCIENTIFIC 



SOCIETIES 



1955 CONGRESS AT FOLKESTONE 



'X'HE principal event of 1955 has been the 60th Annual Congress of 

 the South Eastern Union of Scientific Societies held at Folkestone 

 at the invitation of the Folkestone Borough Council on the suggestion 

 of our Society. The Congress took place from the 14th to the 17th 

 April mostly in brilliant w^eather and w^as attended by over 400 delegates 

 of the Union's nearly 100 affiliated associations, including members of 

 the Folkestone Natural History Society, a number of whom recall the 

 30th Annual Congress at Folkestone in 1925. 



Sir Harold Spencer Jones, the Astronomer Royal, found it necessary 

 to withdraw as President-Elect, as the Conference coincided with an 

 official visit to the United States. The eminent radiologist. Dr. Russell 

 J. Reynolds, C.B.E., M.B., consented to election as President. His 

 Presidential Address at the Town Hall on the development of cineradio- 

 graphy was extremely well received. A Civic Reception by the Mayor 

 of Folkestone, Commander C. E. Neate, R.N. (Retd.), was held at the 

 Leas Cliff Hall when an outstanding Exhibition of undertakings of local 

 and scientific interest was opened and later visited during the period 

 of Congress by approximately 4,000 members of Congress and General 

 Public. Meetings of Sections of the Union were held throughout the 

 four days and local excursions, attended by 200 delegates, were arranged 

 for each day. 



Congress programme, accommodation, excursions and publicity 

 arrangements were handled by a number of working committees of 

 the Natural History Society, and the Congress H.Q. was established 

 at the Education Office, 3, Shorncliflfe Road. The 60th Annual Congress 

 at Folkestone was undoubtedly a success due to the efforts of the members 

 concerned and, as Mr. Frank Edwards the General Secretary, has since 

 written, is likely to mark the renaissance of the South-Eastern Union 

 of Scientific Societies. 



V. C. Burns. 



OUR WEATHER IN FOLKESTONE 

 OCTOBER, 1954 TO SEPTEMBER, 1955 



TT is not surprising that with a climate such as ours we have an intense 

 -'- interest in its behaviour. More often criticising the present weather 

 or attempting to forecast the future, it is a pleasant change to examine 



