144 NOTES AND NEWS. 



New Members of General Committee. —Your Executive 

 recommend that Mr. R. Barnes of Saltburn, Mr. Godfrey Bingley 

 of Leeds, Mr. James Booth, Mayor of Hahfax, Mr. Frederick 

 Brittain of Sheffield, Mr. Riley Fortune of Harrogate, Mr. John 

 Gerrard of Wakefield, Mr. Hugh Richardson of Sedbergh, Mr. Henry 

 Speight of Bradford, Dr. F. J. Sawdon of Hull, and Mr. Thos. F. 

 Ward of Middlesbrough, be the ten additional permanent members 

 of the (General Committee for this year. 



Your Executive have again considered the desirability of the 

 members having a direct voice in the choice of representatives on 

 the General Committee, and they hereby recommend that in future 

 the ten additions made annually to the list of permanent members 

 be made by vote of the members, the voting to be by written com- 

 munications forwarded to the Hon. Secretaries, and afterwards 

 examined and reported upon by scrutineers to be appointed by the 

 General Committee at the Annual Meeting. 



The Presidency. — In conclusion, your Executive have to 

 announce that the office of President has been accepted by the 

 Right Rev. Wm. Walsham-How, Lord Bishop of Wakefield — 

 a naturalist of old standing, who in years gone by was successively 

 the founder, hon. secretary, and president of the Oswestry Field 

 Club, one of the most successful of the Field Clubs of the West of 

 England. 



Your Executive have further to express their warm sense of grati- 

 tude to the retiring President, Mr. H. Eeles Dresser, for the honour 

 which he has conferred upon the Union by his tenure of the office. 



iVOTES AND NEWS. 



The Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland have issued an 

 important circular, announcing the formation of a Committee of Aid in conducting 

 Anthropological and Archaeological Explorations. In carrying out the Ancient 

 Monuments Act of 1882, it has been noticed that, whilst, owing to the public 

 feeling enlisteil in their favour, comparatively little damage is being done to 

 ancient monuments as defined by the Act, a large amount of valuable information 

 is constantly lost by the destruction of ancient relics, in the course of agricultural, 

 mining, and other operations which the Act of Parliament is powerless to prevent. 

 Attention is also drawn to the unsatisfactory way in which many archaeological 

 investigations are conducted, and the absence of any systematic method of recording 

 the measurements of human skeletons, the absence of any uniform system of 

 measurement, the absence of any systematic measurement of the bones of animals, 

 the neglect of valuable evidence owing to the explorers not knowing what to 

 observe and record. It is thought that landowners might be induced to undertake 

 explorations upon their own property, if a Committee were formed to which they 

 could refer for information as to the proper method of conducting them. The 

 Council of the Institute have nominated therefore Lieut. -Ceneral A. Pitt Rivers 

 President, Prof. W. Flower, J. G. Garson, A. L. Lewis, F. G. Hilton Price, and 

 C. H. Read, as such Committee, and their functions are defined in the circular. 

 Explorers desiring the assistance of the Committee can address the President at 

 Rushmore, Salisbury, or 4, (.Irosvenor Ciardens, London. 



Natiir.ilist. 



