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difficult to obtain members able and willing to serve. And it was a
great advantage, he added, to the local workers to have their papers
catalogued in the Annual Report of the British Association and pre-
served at the office of the Association, where they might be con-
sulted by many who would otherwise remain ignorant of their
existence. Each Corresponding Society, also, had the Report of
the British Association presented to it in exchange for its own Pro-
ceedings. He regretted that the Association had not been able to
obtain greater facilities from the railway companies for members
travelling to and from meetings of the Association, and remarked, in
conclusion, that the local authorities had placed the room in which
they were then meeting at the disposal of the delegates, as a place in
which they might meet for talk or discussion at any time.
Among the committees of the British Association is one to
consider "The Application of Photography to the Elucidation of
Meteorological Phenomena." Mr. Symons, Chairman of this Com-
mittee, remarked that 467 photographs had been sent in. On this
account he did not press for more, but the Committee would be glad
to have additional photographs of lightning.
Mr. A. S. Reid, a member of the "Committee for the Collection,
Preservation, and Systematic Registration of Photographs of
Geological Interest," said that they had received more than forty
new photographs during the past year, making the total collection
S46 ; they were all British. The appeal to the Corresponding
Societies had been more successful than in any previous year. He
had, however, to report that unfortunately many prints had been
sent in without the names of the Societies sending them, that of the
photographer, or of the place photographed.
Mr. P. F. Kendall, Secretary to the "Committee for Recording
the Position, etc., of the Erratic Blocks of England, Wales, and
Ireland," remarked that very few of the Corresponding Societies had
sent any information. The Committee had been in existence
twenty-one years, but there were whole counties abounding in
erratic blocks from which not a single report had ever been sent.
There were thus great gaps in their information which could only
be filled by photographs and reports from quarters which had not
hitherto responded to their appeal.
There must be many unrecorded blocks in Essex, the nature and
position of. which should be carefully noted by our local observers
and the result sent to Mr. Kendall.