Dr. Laver said that he had not observed anything of the sort, and 

 asked for further particulars of the Welsh mounds. 



Mr. A. Nutt moved that the Congress ask its component Societies 

 to assist the Folk-lore Society in the collection of all that was in print 

 on the subject in reference to their respective counties. The subject 

 of Folk-lore perhaps only remotely touched that of Arch;i:ology, but 

 he thought this local aspect would interest Societies. Volumes had 

 already been published dealing with Northumberland, Gloucestershire, 

 Suffolk, Leicestershire, and Rutland, and parts of Yorkshire, and were 

 in progress for Devonshire and other counties. About one-third of 

 the country had been done, and the work had taken fifteen years. If 

 the ArchcEological Societies would help by finding workers or even by 

 making the work generally known, it might most materially help in 

 the completion of the work. 



Sir Edward Brabrook, a V.-P. of the Society, in seconding the 

 motion, said that he did not think Archieologists would at all regard 

 Folk-lore as a subject foreign to them ; the motion was further 

 supported by Dr. Gaster, the President of the Folk-lore Society, and 

 by Mr. Ralph Nevill, who said that as a member of the Devon 

 Association he had observed that Folk-lore was a very attractive 

 branch at its meetings; he thought that Societies might with advantage 

 bring the question before their members and ask for wbrkers, a course 

 which might attract new members and add to the interest of their 

 published Transactions. 



The Resolution was carried with acclamation, and the Secretary 

 directed to call attention to the matter in the Minutes that would be 

 circulated. 



The Committee for preparing a scheme for recording Churchyard 

 Inscriptions then presented its Report and a paper of Directions. 

 The adoption was moved by Lord Balcarres, Chairman of the 

 Committee, who stated that the Committee, while they agreed with 

 most of the best authorities that verbatim transcripts were most to be 

 desired, were yet anxious not to shut out those workers who might be 

 willing to make more abbreviated records. Inscriptions were disap- 

 pearing so rapidly that it was most important to secure a record of 

 the facts as quickly as possible. 



In response to an invitation for criticism, Mr. R. Garraway Rioe, 

 F.S.A., who has made a large number of verbatim transcripts, said 

 that he welcomed the Report, which was likely to be most useful. 

 He was, however, so convinced of the superiority of full copies, that 

 he asked that something should be said on the subject in the paper of 

 Directions. The Report was transient, Init the Directions would 

 prol)ably long be used. I le also deprecated a paragr.^ph mentioning 

 the use of strong brushes and soap, and made xarious other sug- 

 gestions and particularly pointed out the importance of the words 

 " Here lieth " and " In memory of," mentioning his trouble in the 

 case of an ancestress whose death was recorded under the latter 

 heading. He had been unable to find the burial in the register, but 



