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president's address. 
exhibited a specimen of one of the rarest not only of our 
British but of European Moths, found in Norwich by 
Mr. A. Plunkett. 
February 28th. Mr. Robert Gurney gave a summary of 
two papers by himself and by Mr. A. G. Innes on the Tides 
of the River Bure, and Messrs. W. H. Burrell and W. G. Clarke 
papers on Botanical Rambles in West Norfolk, with Notes on 
the Genus Utricularia, which were read by the latter. 
March 28th. Mr. W. H. Burrell, F.L.S., exhibited three 
MSS. Volumes containing copies of 279 letters, dated 1823-25, 
addressed to or from Letheringsett Rectory. Mr. T. J. 
Wigg read Notes on the Herring Fishery of 1910, and Mr. F. 
Leney, the Curator, some Notes on the Additions to the 
Natural History Collections in Norwich Castle-Museum 
received during 1910. 
Mr. F. Long, L.R.C.P., attended the meeting of the British 
Association at Sheffield as your delegate to the Conference 
of the Corresponding Societies’ Committee. The Chairman, 
Dr. Tempest Anderson, gave an address and demonstration 
on some methods of Optical Projection. Mr. F. Balfour 
Browne opened a discussion on the following motion of 
special interest to the Local Societies, viz., “ That a Committee 
of Biologists be formed to recommend the adoption of a definite 
system on which collectors should record their captures.” 
This was passed by the Conference with an Amendment: “And 
desires its representatives to support before the Committee 
of Recommendations a proposal from sections D & K for 
the appointment of a Committee to carry out the suggestion.” 
A paper on the adaptation of Roads to Fast and Heavy 
Motor Traffic was read by Mr. T. R. Wilton, M.A., A.M.I.C.E. 
The Conference concluded with a discussion on Ordnance 
and Geological Survey Maps, and the enhanced prices, 
and a motion was carried to the effect that the Societies 
represented at the Conference should communicate with the 
Treasury and with their Members of Parliament with a view 
of reverting to the old prices of the Geological Survey Maps. 
