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only a small share. The following are the personal statistics, 
so far as I am able to collect them:— 
Prof. T. W. Bridge, Committee to report on Herds of Wild 
Cattle in Cliartley Park and other places in Britain. 
E. de Hamel, Wild Cattle Committee. 
W. R. Hughes, Sec. Wild Cattle Committee. 
E. W. Badger, Committee on Preservation of Native 
Plants. 
A. W. Wills, Native Plants Committee. 
Prof. W. Hillhouse, Sec. Native Plants Committee; Com-, 
mittee on Provincial Museums. 
Prof. Milnes Marshall, Wild Cattle Committee; Committee 
on the Translation of Foreign Memoirs ; Committee 
on Naples Zoological Station; Committee on Ply¬ 
mouth Marine Biological Laboratory. 
Dr. Crosskeg, Sec. Committee on Erratic Blocks ; Com¬ 
mittee on Circulation of Underground Waters and 
Water Supply; Committee on the Teaching of Science 
in Elementary Schools. 
As your delegate, I attended both meetings of the 
Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies. At 
these, certain subjects were submitted for discussion, which 
it is specially desired should be brought under the notice of 
Local Natural History and other Societies. These subjects, 
or such of them as come within the possible scope of this 
Society’s action, are— 
1. —A Committee for the purpose of investigating the 
circulation of the underground waters in the permeable 
formations of England, and the quality and quantity of the 
water supplied to various towns and districts from these 
formations. 
Standing as Birmingham does on the verge of a great 
coal-field, the Natural History and Geological Societies of the 
district have peculiarly favourable opportunities of enquiring 
into this subject. Dr. Crosskey is -a member of this Com¬ 
mittee. 
2. —A Committee, with Dr. Crosskey as Secretary, for the 
purpose of recording the position, height above the sea, 
lithological characters, size, and origin of the erratic blocks 
of England, Wales, and Ireland, reporting other matters of 
interest connected with the same, and taking measures for 
their preservation. 
3. —A Committee, with your Delegate as Secretary, to 
collect information as to the disappearance of native plants 
from their local habitats, and to report thereon. Of this, see 
below. 
