l63 NOTES ON THE CONFERENCE OF DELEGATES OF THE 



On the maintenance of local museums, the Secretary read a letter 

 from Mr. W. Cole, Hon. Sec. Essex Field Club. Mr. Cole thought 

 that if an annual sum for the maintenance of local museums could 

 be obtained from the Technical Educational Crants in each county 

 there v.-ould be no great difficulty in obtaining substantial sums 

 towards buildings and fittings The fear that a museum might not 

 be permanent often kept back subscriptions. Donations, both of 

 money and of specimens, would rapidly come in when once the 

 public felt that the museum would be permanent ; and in no way 

 could a portion of the Technical Educational Grant be better 

 expended than in placing on a satisfactory footing the local museum 

 of the county. 



Mr. Symons thought the idea of getting a grant from the source 

 suggested a very good one. 



It is certainly obvious that no Field Club or Clubs can be relied 

 upon for the pennanent maintenance of a museum. This subject 

 will be more fully discussed at the Oxford meeting of the British 

 Association next year. 



T. V. HOLMES, 



Hon. Secretary Corresponding Societies Committee ; 



Delegate., Essex Field Club. 



I add a list of those British Association Committees of whose 

 existence the Corresponding Societies should be more especially 

 aware. As all the members of the various Committees are members 

 of the British Association, their addresses may abvays be obtained 

 by consulting the list of members of that body : — 



Corresponding Societies Committee. C7/(?/r;;r7« — Piofess ir R. Meldola. 

 Secretary — Mr. T. V. Holmes. Mr. Francis Galton, Sir Douglas Galton, Sir 

 Rawson Ra\v;on, Mr. G. J. Symons, Dr. J. G. Garson, Sir John Evans, Mr. J. 

 Hopkinson, Professor T. G. Bonney, Mr. W. Wliitaker, xMr. VV. Topley, Mr. E. 

 B. Poulton, Mr. Cuthbert Pe;k, and Rev. Canon H. B. Tristram. 



To organise an Ethnographical Survey of the United Kingdom. 

 C/iairnian — Mr. E. W. Brabrook. Secretary — Mr. G. W. Bloxam. Mr. P'rancis 

 Galton, Dr. J. G. Garson, Professor A. C. Haddon, Dr. Joseph Anders )n, Mr. J. 

 Romilly Allen, Dr. J. Beddoe, Professor D. J. Cunningham, Professor W. Boyd 

 Davvkins, Mr. Arthur Evans, Mr. E. Sidney Hartland, Sir H. Hovvorth, Professor 

 R. Meldola, General Pitt-Rivers, and Mr. E. G. Raven'tein. 



Ascertaining and recording the Localities in the British Islands in 

 which evidence of the existence of Prehistoric Inhabitants of the 

 Country are found. Clmirman — Sir John Lubbock. Secretary — Mr. J. \V 

 Davis. Sir John Evans, Professor Boyd Dawkins, Dr. R. Munro, Mr. Pengelly, 

 Dr. Hicks, and Profes=£)r R. Meldola. 



To consider proposals for the Legislative Protection of Wild Birds' 



