216 THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
has built for himself—largely through Faraday's labours—is
capable of supplying the needs of the whole of mankind. But
of what use is it all if the displaced unemployed man has not
the wherewithal to share in the consumption of the goods
produced ?
We await the advent of a worthy successor to Faraday, who
will point the way to the utilisation of this productive power
to the greatest advantage of every individual man and woman.
REPORT OF THE CLUB'S DELEGATE TO THE
CONFERENCE OF DELEGATES OF CORRES-
PONDING SOCIETIES, BRITISH ASSOCIATION
MEETING IN LONDON, 1931.
By D. J. SCOURFIELD, I.S.O., F.L.S., etc.
THE Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies
held this year in connection with the meeting of the
British Association in London should have a special interest for
members of the Essex Field Club in that it was under the Presi-
dency of our past President, Sir Arthur Smith Woodward. Fur-
thermore, Sir Arthur's Presidential Address on "Geology as a
subject for local Societies" was one which should give us much
encouragement to continue and extend the geological side of our
activities, for it was directed very largely to pointing out the
possibility and great value of local geological work on lines which
we have in the past endeavoured, at any rate, to carry out to
the best of our ability.
At the commencement of his address, Sir Arthur said that
although in most branches of science the technicalities were
becoming so alarming that it is very difficult for the layman
to understand them, geology and geography still gave ample
scope for field observations by those who were not necessarily
specialists. To watch for new openings of the ground wherever
being made so that corrections of previous conclusions on the
geological structure of the district may be obtained ; to watch
the working faces of quarries, especially for fissures in which
animal remains of later date may have been embedded ; to
watch the workings in gravel pits for chance fossils and imple-
ments and for pebbles foreign to the general mass ; to watch for