lii 
PROCEEDINGS, 
First Meeting. 
The Report of the Committee recommended two additions to 
the list of Affiliated Societies, announced the resignation of two 
Associated Societies, and suggested that the Chairman of the 
Conference of Delegates should be ex officio a member of the 
Committee of Recommendations, and therefore in a similar 
position to the Presidents of Sections. 
The Report stated that as strong representations had been 
received as to the want of means for the publication of original 
work from which many scientific societies suffer, the Committee, 
with the consent of the Council, drew up a circular headed 
“ Suggested Publication Fund” which had been sent out to all 
the chartered and local scientific societies not wholly given up 
to professional pursuits, to which over forty replies had been 
received. Further replies and the result of the discussion at 
this Conference were awaited before drawing up a report to 
the Council. 
The Chairman delivered an Address on “ Regional Surveys.” 
The Address chiefly related to the geographical aspects of 
natural history investigations, and instanced the following, 
amongst other, books and memoirs as excellent examples of what 
may be done in the scientific investigation of many areas in the 
British Islands :— 
“ A Fragment of the G-eography of England : South-West 
Sussex.” By Dr. H. R. Mill. ‘ Gfeogr. Journ.,’ vol. xv (1900), 
pp. 205 and 353. 
‘ Botanical Survey of Scotland : I, Edinburgh District; 
II, Northern Perthshire.’ By the late R. Smith. (1900.) 
“ Geographical Distribution of Yegetation in Yorkshire.” By 
W. G. Smith and C. E. Moss, and by W. G. Smith and W. M. 
Rankin. ‘Geogr. Journ.,’ vol. xxi (1903), p. 375, and vol. xxii 
(1903), p. 149. 
“ Charnwood Forest : a buried Triassic Landscape.” By 
Prof. W. W. Watts. ‘Geogr. Journ.,’ vol. xxi (1903), p. 623. 
“ Geographical Distribution of Yegetation of the Basins of 
the Rivers Eden, Tees, Weir, and Tyne.” By F. J. Lewis. 
‘ Geogr. Journ.,’ vol. xxiii (1904), p. 313, and vol. xxiv (1904), 
p. 267. 
“ Peat Moors of the Pennines: their Age, Origin, and Utili¬ 
zation.” By C. E, Moss. ‘ Geogr. Journ.,’ vol.xxiii (1904), p. 660. 
“ The Yegetation of the District lying south of Dublin.” By 
G. H. Pethybridge and R. L. Praeger. ‘ Proc. Roy. Irish Acad.,’ 
vol. xxv, B, 6 (1905), p. 124. 
‘ The History of Devonshire Scenery : an Essay in Geographical 
Evolution.’ By Principal A. W. Clayden. (1906.) 
“ The Origin and Influence of the chief Physical Features of 
Northumberland and Durham.” By Dr. D. Woolacot. ‘ Geogr. 
Journ.,’ vol. xxx (1907), p. 36. 
Dr. Haddon also mentioned the surveys of Lambay Island 
