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of the Geological Survey. It was more success- 

 ful in securing from the Colonial Secretary sym- 

 pathetic and practical attention to ' the defects of 

 the present administration of antiquities in Cyprus.' 

 The Council also supported the General Medical 

 Council in pressing proposals for inquiry into and 

 legislation upon the regulation of the administration 

 of general anaesthetics (1910), and in 1914 returned 

 to this subject, with special reference to the adminis- 

 tration of anaesthetics by unregistered persons. 



1914-19. The outbreak of the war in 1914 caused 

 the postponement of the consideration of a number 

 of resolutions passed at the Australian meeting 

 (see Chapter IV), and involving reference to Govern- 

 ment authorities. It is scarcely necessary to add that 

 the conditions of war during subsequent years, and 

 the suspension of the Association's meetings in 1917 

 and 1918, precluded any communications between the 

 Association and the Government, of the nature of 

 those previously discussed. 



But, as will appear in the following chapter, 

 the Association was by no means wholly inactive 

 during that period ; and in 1919, on resuming its 

 annual meetings, it found many matters arising 

 out of the war to occupy its attention. Before the 

 meeting in that year occasion had been taken to 

 impress upon Government departments the desira- 

 bility of preserving for ethnological use the data 

 which had been collected in connexion with the 

 issue of travelling passes to the inhabitants of various 

 seats of war, and with the organisation of national 

 service at home. After the meeting in 1919 

 a resolution was forwarded, strongly urging upon 

 various Government departments the necessity of 



