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PROCEEDINGS, 
Prof. P. P. Kendall, of Leeds, urged that the strongest 
inducement to uniformity would be to offer a good map, such as 
that of Scotland exhibited by Mr. Balfour Browne. 
Mr. Wilfred Mark Webb said that maps showing the 
boundaries of the river-valleys would be the most useful. 
Mr. Whitaker remarked that county boundaries meant 
nothing from the naturalists’ point of view. 
Mr. Balfour Browne, in his reply, said that the system he 
advocated was meant to be arbitrary. His suggested resolution 
was adopted with the addition of the method of procedure to be 
carried out. 
The opinion of your recorder is that the only satisfactory 
division of the country, whether for botanical or zoological 
investigations, is that of drainage-areas. It is the only natural 
division, and the only division which could possibly be adopted 
which can never materially alter. To abandon the Watsonian 
divisions would doubtless cause temporary confusion, but they 
are not now what they were in his time, the boundaries of most 
of our counties having been altered, as they may be again. 
Second Meeting. 
This meeting was almost entirely devoted to a discussion, 
opened by Mr. T. K. Wilton, representing the Liverpool 
Engineering Society, on the “ Adaptation of Koads to Past and 
Heavy Motor Traffic.” 
Although the subject is one of great importance, as treated by 
Mr. Wilton it is a question for engineers, not naturalists. We 
must leave it to engineers to devise, if possible, a road along 
which motor traffic may pass without interfering with the 
comfort of pedestrians, spoiling their clothes, ruining their 
health, and endangering their lives. All that we can do as 
naturalists is to avoid a road whenever possible, and to use our 
utmost endeavours to retain freedom of access to all public 
fieldpaths, commons, and other open spaces. 
The rest of the meeting was devoted to a discussion on our 
Ordnance and Geological Survey Maps and their enhanced prices. 
The discussion was introduced by the Vice-Chairman, 
Prof. Kendall, who spoke of inconsistence in publication, 
paper, and drawing of the Ordnance Maps, even the contouring 
not being uniform, and also of the prohibitive increase in price 
of the geologically-coloured maps. 
Prof. Watts said that the cost of the maps of the Geological 
Survey especially affected local societies, and that the matter 
should not be allowed to rest. 
Your Delegate, Mr. Kidner, suggested that the Conference of 
Delegates should send a requisition to the Council of the 
Association to take action in the matter. 
Mr. A. W. Oke suggested that the local societies should 
memorialise their Members of Parliament. 
The following resolution, proposed by Mr. Kidner, was then 
