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The Chairman remarked that he was afraid they would be told that 

 by regulations of this kind they were interfering with the internal 

 management of the Societies. 



Mr. Sowerbutts said that had always been a difficulty, but if the 

 difficulty were not overcome the work of the Corresponding Societies 

 Committee could hardly be carried to a profitable issue. 



Section H. 



Mr. E. Sidney Hartland, representing Section H, brought before the 

 notice of the Conference the work of the Anthropological Photographs 

 Committee, whose object was to collect photographs of objects of anthro- 

 pological interest. At present the collection was to be placed in the 

 rooms of the Anthropological Institute. The Committee thought that 

 there must be in all parts of the country a considerable number of photo- 

 graphs of this kind of interest to students, but not at present available. 

 They wanted photographs of prehistoric stone monuments, stone im- 

 plements, primitive pottery, and of objects connected with local supersti- 

 tions, &c. Objects of this kind were frequently to be met with in local 

 museums. Sometimes they belonged to the locality, sometimes not. But 

 at present their existence there was known only to the local men, and the 

 Committee wished to make them available for all students of anthropology. 

 The Secretary of the Committee was Mr. J. L. Myres. 



The Rev. J. O. Bevan said that though the hour was late he wished 

 to bring forward a proposition. It was ' that the Committees of the 

 Corresponding Societies be invited to lay before their members the 

 necessity of carrying on a systematic survey of their counties in respect 

 to ethnography and ethnology, botany, meteorology, ornithology, 

 archaeology, folklore, &c.' This kind of work was being done in part at 

 various places, but at present little was known of it by any central body, 

 and thence probably there was some confusion and overlapping. The 

 Society of Antiquaries were prepared to assist any local Society willing to 

 take up the archseological survey of a county. The Committee of the 

 British Association which was concerned with the ethnography and 

 ethnology of the country was dissolved at the Dover meeting. He hoped 

 that the Committees of the various local Societies would appoint members 

 according to their several aptitudes to take up specific work, and that the 

 Corresponding Societies Committee should be in a position to know what 

 was being done, so as to regulate and co-ordinate the work and give it 

 direction. He wished that some record might be kept of the resolution by 

 placing it on the minutes. 



The Chairman said that the only difficulty of putting the resolution 

 was that the meeting was then so small that it would be hardly fair to 

 take a vote. He suggested that the resolution should be referred to the 

 Committee to deal with. 



It was resolved that all the matters touched upon by Mr. Sowerbutts 

 and Mr. Bevan should be referred to the Committee. 



Mr, Hembry suggested that at future meetings matters connected with 

 the different Sections should be taken before the reading of a paper on any 

 special subject. 



The Chairman said that this question might also be referred to the 

 •Committee. 



