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India to collect various important ethnological data, 

 and (b) to give more prominence to botany in the 

 training of Indian forest officers. As regards the 

 first of these requests, the Government did not find 

 the Association's proposals practicable, but it did 

 give instructions for the collection by census superin- 

 tendents of particulars regarding the ' history, struc- 

 ture, traditions, and religious and social usages of the 

 various tribes and castes,' and put forward a scheme 

 for the encouragement of ethnological investigations 

 independently of the census. 



1902-3. The Council directed the attention 

 of the Office of Works and the Local Government 

 Board to the desirability of appointing an inspector 

 of ancient monuments (a post which had been in 

 abeyance since the death of General Pitt Rivers 

 in 1900), and of taking better measures to protect 

 ancient monuments from destruction. The Govern- 

 ment was again approached on this question in 1906, 

 but in neither case was there any immediate response. 

 At the time the responsibility was in the hands of 

 an official who had other occupations as well ; but 

 the recommendation took effect in 1910, when an 

 inspector was appointed having no other duties. 



1903-4. The question of increased national 

 provision for university education ' was taken up. 

 The various universities, university colleges, and other 

 large institutions interested in educational science 

 were approached by the President of the Association, 

 with the result that c a large and distinguished deputa- 

 tion, including representatives of all the universities, 

 university colleges, and many county, municipal, and 

 other educational authorities in the United King- 

 dom/ was received by the Prime Minister (Mr. Balfour) 



