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immediate financial necessities are satisfied, proceed to equip itself, 
and so the town, with an adequate collection of scientific works, 
more particularly those bearing upon the activities of the various 
sections of the Society. As part of this general policy may be 
urged an immediate effort for the collection of as full a library 
of papers, reprints of lectures before local or national scientific 
societies and memoirs bearing upon the features and history of the 
district, as it is possible to obtain. Individual members of the 
Society can assist towards this end, according to their special 
interest and the richness of their gleanings for private study in 
the scientific literature of local interest. 
Now that the Library is comfortably housed and set out, it 
is expected that it will be more used than during the past year, 
and being more used its many wants realised and gradually met. 
- W. MUNN RANKIN. 
flcport of the gdtgale to ih z British 
Association, 1913. 
OIR DANIEL MORRIS presented & Report as Delegate of 
^ the Bournemouth Natural Science Society at the Confer¬ 
ence of Corresponding Societies at the meeting of the British 
Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Birmingham, 
September ioth—17th, 1913. 
The Chairman of the Conference was Dr. P. Chalmers 
Mitchell, F.R.S., the Vice-Chairman Sir H. George Fordham, and 
the Secretary, Mr. W. P. D. Stebbing. There were present 72 
Delegates of Affiliated Societies, and 21 from Associated Societies, 
making a total of 93. 
At the opening meeting held on Thursday, September nth, 
the Chairman gave an interesting address on “ Utility and 
Selection ” in Plant and Animal Life, which was listened to with 
rapt attention. 
The following subjects, suggested by the Yorkshire Philo¬ 
sophical Society and the Belfast Naturalists’ Field Club were 
^ discussed:—“ The Relationship of Local Museums with Educa¬ 
tional Institutions,” introduced by the Rev. William Johnson, and 
“The best means for Preventing the Extinction of Local Species,” 
introduced by a paper by Mr. R. H. Whitehouse. Mr. A. R. 
Horwood, of Leicester, also opened a discussion on “ Scientific 
Societies and the Control of Plant Extinction.” 
Consideration was given to the desirability of holding the 
Conference of Delegates in 1914 at Havre during the meeting of 
the French Association for the Advancement of Science in that 
town. Dr. Loir, local secretary, had written to say that the 
principal British residents in Havre had joined a Committee for 
the reception of members of the British Association. 
At the second meeting of the Conference, on September 16th, 
it was decided to accept the invitation to hold the Conference of 
Delegates at Havre in 1914. 
