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business it will be to recommend the various maps and memoirs 
for publication. 
Colour Scheme. After careful consideration, a scheme has 
been prepared, which can now be obtained (in slip form) from the 
Secretary (13, George Square, Edinburgh). The basis of this 
scheme is to give allied types of vegetation related groups of 
colours, consideration being given to suitable tints and the number 
of such available. This scheme gives the names of water-colours 
to represent plant-associations on field-maps, and these are corre¬ 
lated with colours for publication selected from the scheme now in 
use on colour-printed maps of the Geological Survey (new series). 
The colour scheme has been prepared by members with the 
greatest experience over different areas of Britain, and includes all 
types of vegetation hitherto recognised, while the probability of new 
colours being required has not been overlooked. 
Nomenclature. This difficult subject has been discussed from 
time to time, and the Committee has decided to make a statement 
on the subject at the International Congress at Brussels in 1910, 
where a special effort is to be made to deal with the nomenclature 
of vegetation. The basis of the statement will be an attempt to 
determine more closely than has hitherto been done, the conception 
of a “ plant-formation ” as the basal conception in descriptive 
ecological plant geography. 
Botanical Photographs. The arrangement already outlined 
(New Phytologist, Vol. VI., 1907, p. 104) has been adopted, so 
that all botanical photographs submitted and accepted will find a 
place either in the collection of the Botanical Photographs’ Com¬ 
mittee of the British Association, or in that of this Committee. 
The former collection is under the control of the Secretary of the 
British Association Committee (Professor Weiss, Manchester), while 
our collection is under the charge of Mr. Tansley, at Cambridge. 
The collections are now fairly large and are available for reference 
on application. 
“ Natural Monuments.” The recent publication of Dr. 
Conwentz’s book, “The Care of Natural Monuments” (Camb. 
Univ. Press, 1909), led to a consideration of the Committee’s 
position regarding these. The author indicated that the investi¬ 
gations of members of the Committee were likely to lead to the 
location of areas of vegetation which it would be desirable to 
preserve as “natural monuments,” and the Committee has now 
