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copies have to he presented to five libraries—one in London, one-in 
Oxford, one in Cambridge, one in Edinburgh, and one in Dublin. 
That in London is the Library of the British Museum ; and even 
if you only print and do not publish your proceedings, a copy 
should he sent there. This is a point I cannot too strongly urge. 
We possess, at the Office of the Association, a very valuable and 
unique collection of the publications of the Corresponding Societies. 
I hope that it will in future he kept intact, and that by more 
extensive and convenient premises being acquired by the Associa¬ 
tion, it may be possible to improve its arrangement and make it 
more accessible than it is at present; and I also think that an 
effort should be made to get replaced certain publications which 
some years ago were lent and lost, so that every paper catalogued 
in the Reports of the Association may be readily referred to, for 
some of these are not now to be found in London, not even in the 
Library of our greatest national institution, the British Museum. 
In the discussion which ensued, Mr. Whitaker stated that he 
had sent some annual reports of a provincial society to the British 
Museum, and they were returned ; and the opinion was expressed 
that the Trustees were acting unwisely, as such pamphlets would 
soon be very difficult to obtain. It was stated that they would 
have been gladly accepted at the Natural History Museum at 
South Kensington. The question of uniformity in size of the 
publications of scientific societies was raised, and the Yice-Chairman 
advocated the size of our popular magazines. 
Your Delegate, in reply, said that he had excluded all reference 
to the size of publications because that had been considered by 
an influential Committee of the British Association some years ago, 
when demy octavo or demy quarto was recommended. He was 
aware that the publications of the smallest of our provincial 
societies would be welcomed at South Kensington, but our National 
Library was the one at Bloomsbury, and such publications, however 
small, should be there. He regretted to find that recently, in that 
Library, the covers of the first and the last number only of the 
volumes of certain scientific periodicals had been bound instead of 
the first cover of every number. 
Reports of Delegates from various Sections were then taken. 
Dr. H. R. Mill (Section A), referring to meteorological observa¬ 
tions, instanced the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and the 
Croydon Natural History Society as having published each year 
‘ c a most admirable meteorological report of the areas they dealt 
with.” The Royal Meteorological Society was endeavouring to 
increase the interest in observation, and to direct it systematically. 
The subject was one of great interest; the observations were easily 
made; and when brought together could be put to excellent 
scientific use. 
Mr. Whitaker (Section C) said that it was the joint desire of the 
Geographical and Geological Sections to determine and record the 
exact significance of local terms applied to topographical and 
