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been published as one of the Museum "Handbooks." To this pamphlet the
members are referred at the present time. The Council will now content
itself by again recording its satisfaction at the settlement of this most
important question ; the establishment of the Museum on a permanent basis
and the selection of a Head-quarters for our Library and official work,
cannot fail to have a beneficial influence on the future progress of the Club.
The Epping Forest Museum.—The Council has very great pleasure in
recording a most substantial progress at the Forest Museum. Referring to
the reports for 1897 and 1898, in which the then state of the negotiations
with the Corporation Committee were related, the Council has to announce
that at a meeting of the Common Council of the City of London held at the
Guildhall on April 27th, 1899, a Report from the Epping Forest Committee
recommending the repairs of the Queen Elizabeth's Lodge and the re-conver-
sion of the rooms on the first floor into one large room, was received and
adopted, and a sum of £500 was voted towards the expense of such repairs.
These repairs were carried out during the winter of 1899-1900.
The only other matter calling for notice on this occasion is recording the
satisfaction that the Council had in again recommending Mr. Howard for
election as President, so that the opening ceremony of the new Museum might
take place during his tenure of the office.
THE CORRESPONDING SOCIETIES COM-
MITTEE OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION,
BRADFORD, 1900.
REPORT OF THE CLUB'S DELEGATE, PROF. E. B.
POULTON, F.R.S., F.L.S.
[The first conference was held on September 6th, when Prof. Poulton
presided. The principal subject for discussion were some resolutions put
forward by the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, copies of which had been sent
by post to the corresponding Societies previous to the meeting. The draft
resolutions were as follows :—
" 1. That the Conference of Delegates be allowed to meet on the first day
of the British Association Meeting, and make their own arrangements for
subsequent meetings and order of business.
" 2. That it is desirable, in order to make the discussions of the Confer-
ence of Delegates more useful to the local Societies, that they should have the
power of deciding the subjects for discussion at the meetings of the Confer-
ence, and it is suggested, therefore, that a circular be sent by the Committee
every year to each of the Corresponding Societies, asking them to send a list
of subjects for discussion (not more than two or three) at the forthcoming
meetings. The Committee then to send to the Corresponding Societies a
schedule containing the titles of all the subjects proposed for discussion,
asking each Society to mark such of these subjects as it deems most desirable
to discuss at the Conference meetings. On receipt of this information the
Committee will then arrange the list of subjects in order of precedence as