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situated between Chingford and High Beach; also that I have
been obliged to leave the district from time to time for short
periods, which may account for the fact that I was unable to
find some of the catkin galls such as Andricus pilosus and
A. nudus, although the corresponding agamic generation
A. fecundatrix was abundant; and I also found A. malpighi later
on in the year.
In the foregoing account I have perhaps added little to
our knowledge of the oak gall-making Cynipidae. My object,
however, has been, not only to make a list of the oak-galls I have
met with in Epping Forest, and to add certain species to those
which have already been found in Essex, but also to put what
we already know in such a concise form as may stimulate future
research by showing how exceedingly interesting the subject is,
and how wide a field for inquiry and study remains still
unexplored.
THE CORRESPONDING SOCIETIES' COMMITTEE
OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION,
SOUTHPORT, 1903.
REPORT OF THE CLUB'S DELEGATE.
F. W. RUDLER, F.G.S., President E.F.C, Secretary of the Conference of Delegates.
[Read November 28th, 1903.]
EXCEPTIONAL interest attached to the Conference of
Delegates this year, inasmuch as the President of the
Association, Sir Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S., had under-
taken to address the meeting on the necessity of organising
Science, with special reference to the question whether the
British Association could help in any way, and if so, whether
the Corresponding Societies could take any part therein. This
address was the outcome of recent activity on the part of the
Corresponding Societies Committee. Last year that Committee
approached the Council of the British Association with the view of
securing some improvement in the means of communicating with
the local Societies so as to aid more satisfactorily the work of some
of the scientific Committees appointed by the Association. The