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speakers), lie said that they were no doubt very useful, as they 
enabled things to he seen at a glance, but he presumed that these 
investigations were not of much use unless they were published, 
and maps were much more expensive to publish than tabular or 
other statements. It was with the greatest difficulty that his 
Society was kept up, for want of funds. 
Mr. Cole’s suggestions were eventually referred to the Corre¬ 
sponding Societies Committee. 
The Secretary read a letter from Mr. Herbert Stone, F.L.S., 
President of the Birmingham Natural History and Philosophical 
Society, and its Delegate to this Conference, as to railway fares for 
members of Scientific Societies, giving particulars of a petition to 
the Railway Companies from 22 Societies with a membership of 
1,700, for reduced fares for their members when travelling singly. 
This would place them on the same footing as members of angling 
clubs, and it was inferred that the increase in membership of such 
clubs, since this reduction was allowed, of from about 300 to many 
thousands, was largely due to it. 
The discussion was commenced by your Delegate, who stated the 
conditions under which the members of one Society, the Yorkshire 
Naturalists’ Union, obtain return tickets at a fare and a quarter 
when travelling singly in Yorkshire to meetings or excursions of 
their Union. A signed card of membership and a copy of the 
excursion-circular have to he produced. 
Dr. W. R. Scott said that members of Irish Societies get this 
privilege from Railway Companies in Ireland by applying to the 
Secretary of their Society for a form which has to be presented 
to the Company, and the Secretary then gets the ticket at the 
reduced rate. 
Mr. Gr. W. Lamplugh, F.Gr.S., said that in Ireland the privilege 
was not confined to attendance at meetings or excursions, for 
on two occasions the Secretary of his Society obtained a warrant 
authorizing him, when travelling to see excavations, to get a ticket 
for field-club business at a single fare for the double journey ; and 
Captain Dubois Phillips, R.N., said that golf tickets were made 
out in a similar way, a ticket being obtained from the Secretary 
and signed by the member. 
Research work of several sections of the Association was then 
considered. 
In connection with Section A (Mathematical and Physical Science ), 
the Secretary of the Conference read the following letter from 
Mr. W. Marriott, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Meteorological 
Society:—- 
“I should be glad if you would bring to the notice of the Conference of 
Delegates of Corresponding Societies the fact that the Council of the Royal 
Meteorological Society has undertaken to furnish for the ‘ International Catalogue 
of Scientific Literature ’ the titles of papers hearing on meteorology which are 
published in the British Isles. 
“ As this work cannot be complete unless the Society is in possession of all the 
publications containing meteorological papers, the Council would be glad if the 
Delegates of Corresponding Societies would assist in this matter, by requesting all 
