Congress must necessarily be limited to good wishes for the prosperity 

 of the New Society, any preliminary assistance necessary for its 

 formation and a recommendation of its objects, it was proposed by 

 the Earl of Liverpool and seconded by Colonel Attree, K.E., F.S.A., 

 and carried : — " That the Report of the Committee be received and 

 adopted, and that the Congress pledge itself to promote the objects of 

 the Society." 



Mr. Chalklev Gould, F.S.A., then presented the Report of the 

 Earthworks Committee, which has been printed for general distribu- 

 tion. He drew attention to various features of the Report. He 

 asked Secretaries of Societies to give information as to their Counties 

 on such matters as Bibliography and notices of impending destruction. 

 This was frequently the result of want of knowledge and might often 

 be averted, and he instanced the case of Wolsborough, near Bere 

 Regis in Dorset, that Mr. Bond and the National Trust were now 

 engaged in saving. Mr. St. Clair Baddely had also been able to 

 preserve Painswick Beacon, famous for its wonderful view ; the fosse 

 of Lewes Castle had also been preserved. 



Mr. Gould drew attention to the help afforded by the Publishers of 

 the Victoria County Histories, who have presented to the Committee 

 many original plans of Earthworks. 



In response to calls, Mr. Baddely gave an account of his success 

 in saving the Camp at Painswick, the walls of which were being used 

 as a ragstone quarry ; he was congratulated by the meeting. 



Thehon. secretary read a letter from Mr. James G. Wood, F.S.A. 

 (Woolhope Club), who was unable to attend and wished to call atten- 

 tion to the necessity of some skilled supervision of the Ordnance 

 Maps ; he gave various instances of mistaken names. 



The hon. secretary pointed out that Ordnance officers were but 

 niortal and were largely at the mercy of local information ; the Earth- 

 works Committee would no doubt be able to help in gradually 

 correcting and supplementing the Maps. On the motion of Lord 

 Avebury, seconded by Lord Balcarres, the Report was received and 

 adopted and the Committee thanked for their energy. 



The Hon. Secretary then brought forward proposals for a uniform 

 system of recording Church and Churchyard Inscriptions. At his 

 suggestion the Surrey Archaeological Society were promoting a 

 scheme for such a Record, and in response to an announcement in 

 their Annual Report had received several offers of assistance. 



He had since found that the Suffolk Institute had already started 

 such a scheme and were energetically at work on it. Delegates from 

 Suffolk were present and would, no doubt, give their experience ; the 

 East Herts. Society were also on the point of issuing a scheme. It 

 was obviously desirable that a uniform system should be adopted 

 throughout the country, and he read a draft scheme that he had 



