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FIRST REPORT — 1831. 
Geological and Geographical Committee. 
The Committee recommend that Geologists be requested to 
examine strictly into the truth of that part of the theory of M. 
Elie de Beaumont, in its application to England, Scotland, and 
Ireland, which asserts that the lines of disturbance of the strata 
assignable to the same age are parallel , and that a Report to 
the next Meeting on this subject should be procured. 
That Mr. Phillips be requested to draw up, with such co¬ 
operation as he may procure, a systematic catalogue of all the 
organized fossils of Great Britain and Ireland , hitherto de¬ 
scribed, with such new species as he may have an opportunity 
of accurately examining, with notices of their localities and 
geological relations. 
The Committee propose that Mr. Robert Stevenson, Civil 
Engineer, be requested to prepare a Report upon the waste 
and extension of the land on the East coast of Britain, and 
the question of the permanence of the relative level of the sea 
and land; and that individuals who can furnish observations, 
he requested to correspond with him on the subject*. 
The importance which, especially of late years, has been at¬ 
tached to facts of this nature, in illustration of the sciences of 
hydrography and geology, and the mass of uncombined mate¬ 
rials which have recently been accumulating, have induced the 
Committee to make the present recommendation; and in doing 
so, it feels pleasure in being able to have in its view an indivi¬ 
dual whose practical acquaintance with the coast in general, 
and more particularly the minute survey made by him some 
years since, gives reason to expect from his Report much im¬ 
portant and accurate information. 
Botanical Committee. 
The Committee recommend that Professor Lindley be re¬ 
quested to prepare for the next Meeting an account of the 
principal questions recently settled, or at present agitated, in 
the philosophy of Botany, whether in this country or abroad. 
That Botanists in all parts of Great Britain and Ireland be 
invited to compose and communicate to the Meetings of the 
Association, Catalogues of County or other local Floras, with 
indications of those species which have been recently intro¬ 
duced, of those which are rare or very local, and of those which 
* Communications may be addressed to Robert Stevenson, Esq., Engineer 
to the Northern Lighthouse Board, Edinburgh. 
