l66 NOTES ON THE CONFERENCE OF DELEGATES OF THE 



ll was announced by Mr. A. S. Kcid, on behalf of the Cominillee 

 of Section C ((ieology), that the Underground Waters Committee 

 would present their final Report next year, and would be glad to 

 receive further information up to the date of publication. Also that 

 the Coast Erosion Committee had not sent in a Report, though they 

 had plenty of material in hand. 



Mr. Symons, chairman of the " Earth Tremors Committee," 

 announced that its work was going on under the care of Mr. 

 iJavison (Secretary). He added that he should like to hold its 

 Report in suspense for a while, in the hope of future co-operation 

 with some of the Corresponding Societies. 



The Chairman announced that the " Committee to Consider 

 Proposals for the Legislative Protection of Wild Birds' Eggs," had 

 been reappointed, and that the delegates would in due time receive 

 a final communication on the question. The usual discussion on 

 this subject took place ; some delegates being more inclined to 

 blame boys, others to think that collectors were the most destructive 

 influences. There was, however, a general agreement that moral 

 pressure brought to bear upon boys and collectors was likely to prove 

 more efficacious than legislation : and that rare birds might 

 become extinct before legislation could protect their eggs. Mr. C. 

 H. Torr, one of the Nottingham delegates, said that he could under- 

 take that the matter should be brought before the local School 

 Board ; an example that might well be followed by the naturalists of 

 other counties. 



The Chairman in his introductory remarks, and in others which 

 he made as representative of Section H (Anthropology), spoke of 

 the Ethnographical Survey of the United Kingdom, which is being 

 organised by a Committee of the British Association, as a matter in 

 which the assistance of the Corresponding Societies was especially 

 needed. And Mr. Brabrook, the Chairman of the Committee, 

 distributed copies of its first Report among the delegates. The 

 Committee had, he said, obtained, by communication with the 

 Corresponding Societies, a list of nearly 300 villages, with some 

 account of their leading features and peculiarities, all of which were 

 worthy uf special examination by the Committee. For this result, 

 which was much beyond their anticipations, the Ethnographical 

 Committee gave its most hearty thanks to the members of the 

 Corresponding Societies who had helped them so efiiciently. 'J'he 

 next step taken by the Committee had been to draw up a brief code 



