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piece of work, well illustrated by maps and diagrams. The chairman
remarked that Mr. Eaton was an old friend of his, and that his work
was an excellent example of the way in which the rainfall of a county
should be shown. He wished similar records for every county could
be obtained. Mr. Hopkinson stated that about twenty years ago he
began to note the rainfall of Hertfordshire with about twenty
observers. Forty observers were now at work upon it, the results
being published in the "Trans. Herts. Nat. Hist. Soc."
His Honour Deemster Gill added that the meteorology of the
Isle of Man was being well looked after, and that careful investiga-
tions were being made there with regard to coast erosion.
Mr. C. E. De Rance said that the increasing usefulness of the
Corresponding Societies was illustrated by the fact that two Com-
mittees of the British Association, that on Coast Erosion, and that
on the Circulation of Underground Waters, had just ceased to exist
in consequence of the admirable way in which their work had been
taken up by the Corresponding Societies.
Captain Elwes hoped that the Corresponding Societies would
co-operate for the discovery of flint implements and the formulation
of results.
Mr. Osmund W. Jeffs, Secretary to the British Association Com-
mittee for the Collection and Preservation of Geological Photo-
graphs, announced that the photographs collected would be placed
in the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street. The first part
of the collection, consisting of 800 photographs, had already been
placed there. A vote of thanks to Mr. Jeffs for the valuable results
already obtained was proposed and carried unanimously.
Mr. Murdoch (Glasgow) thought that Scotland had been excluded
from too many investigations, and gave, as an instance, the B.A.
Committee for recording the position, etc., of Erratic Blocks in
England, Wales, and Ireland. It was, however, explained that
the omission of Scotland resulted from the fact that the Royal
Society of Edinburgh had been at work on the subject before the
formation of the Committee. And at the second meeting of the
Delegates it was stated that Scotland would be included in the
labours of the Erratic Blocks Committee, as the work once done
there by Mr. Milne Holme had ceased on his death.
At the second meeting it was announced by Mr. White Wallis
that two Committees of the British Association, that for investiga-
ting Earth Tremors, and that for recording Seismological Phenomena