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president’s address. 
of the Pembrokeshire Islands.” Mr. II. A. Ballance exhibited 
specimens of Birds and Mammals from South Africa. Mr. W. H. 
Tuck’s Entomological Notes were read. Mr. F. Leney exhibited 
a photograph of a Mammoth, and Mr. Patterson read some Notes. 
January 26th, 1904, a paper on “The Fresh and Brackish Water 
Crustacea of East Norfolk,” by Mr. Robert Gurney, was read, and 
Mr. Frank Balfour Browne gave an account of Mr. Eustace Gurney’s 
laboratory at Sutton, and a paper on “ A Bionomical Investigation 
of the Norfolk Broads.” 
Feb. 23rd. Mr. F. Balfour Browne exhibited a living specimen, 
of the Pond Tortoise, found at Ludham. Mr. Charles A. Hamond 
gave an account of a “ Short Trip to Spain,” with Notes on 
Birds observed. Mr. T. J. Wigg read “ Notes on the Herring 
Fishery ” of 1903. Rev. A. Miles Moss exhibited and read a 
paper on “ Moths and Butterllies from Switzerland.” Mr. A. W. 
Preston contributed “Meteorological Notes, 1903,” and Mr. A. 
Bennett a paper on “ Carex paradoxa and Lastrtta cristata in 
Britain.” 
Last September, following the precedent set by my predecessor, 
I attended the meeting of the British Association at Southport as 
your Delegate to the Corresponding Societies’ Conference. I have, 
therefore, to bring before you a few remarks on the subject dis- 
cussed at the two meetings. The principal subject of discussion 
was scientific education and the helping forward of it by local 
scientific societies. Many and varied suggestions were made, and 
in some cases the officers of local societies crave accounts of the 
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way in which they assisted in educational work. But circum- 
stances alter cases, and I cannot at present see any way, other than 
an indirect one, by which we can bring influence to bear on the 
existing educational organizations. Though undoubtedly one of 
our objects is an educational one, we strive to attain it more by 
arousing an interest in natural science amongst our own members 
by means of written papers and mutual discussions, than by taking 
any direct part in the scientific instruction of the community. 
The resolution passed at the Conference reads as follows : “ That 
as urged by the President in his address, it is desirable that 
