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remainder some of the proprietors have refused, whilst in the case of 

 others it has been found impracticable owing to peculiarities in the owner- 

 ship. All the monuments have, however, been carefully surveyed, planned, 

 and drawn, and in every case in which there has been a refusal the owners 

 have stated their intention of taking good care of the monuments them- 

 selves. In one case only a camp has been partly damaged, and this owing 

 to mining operations involving a question of a large sum of money which 

 made it impossible for the Government to interfere. Other non-scheduled 

 monuments have since been added to the list, and the number is steadily 

 but not rapidly increasing. 



' The Government makes no allowance for an assistant, not even so 

 much as a man to hold the end of the tape in measuring, without which 

 no proper survey of the monuments can be made, and I have to employ 

 a private assistant, whom I take about with me at my own cost. With 

 his assistance, and by dividing the work with him — I making the necessary 

 notes and measurements while he is drawing — each monument takes on an 

 average about one day ; without an assistant the time would be about 

 doubled. After this the owner has to be visited, and as he generally 

 lives at a distance from the monument, this frequently takes another day 

 or more. A great deal of this time might be saved by the assistance of 

 persons living in the localities, and with better chance of success. 



' I issued a circular to a number of local Societies inviting them to co- 

 operate, but few responded. One instance, however, shows what may be 

 done in this way. Sir Herbert Maxwell has not only sent me the 

 addresses of several owners in Wigtonshire and Kirkcudbrightshire, but, 

 by using his influence with these, has been the means of placing several 

 monuments under the Act. I would suggest that the same course might 

 well be followed by others. 



' The recommendation I would make is this : — Local Societies should 

 (1) report to me what monuments in their district they think worthy of 

 being put under the Act; (2) they should send me the names and 

 addresses of the owners ; (3) they should communicate with the owners, 

 and, if possible, obtain their consent to have the monuments placed under 

 the Act, subject, of course, to their subsequent acceptance by the Office of 

 Works ; and (4) they should report to me any damage that they find 

 being done or contemplated either to the monuments under the Act, or to 

 others not so protected. With such assistance I think that much more 

 rapid progress may be made.' 



Prehistoric Remains Committee. — Mr. J. W. Davis stated that this 

 Committee had been recommended for reappointment by the Committee 

 of Section H. The recommendation is as follows : — ' That Sir John 

 Lubbock, Dr. John Evans, Professor Boyd Dawkins, Dr. R. Munro, 

 Mr. Pengelly, Dr. Hicks, Mr. J. W. Davis, Professor Meldola, and Dr. 

 Muirhead be reappointed a Committee for the purpose of ascertaining 

 and recording the localities in the British Islands in which evidences of 

 the existence of prehistoric inhabitants of the country are found ; and 

 that Mr. J. W. Davis be the Secretary.' 



Professor Lebour suggested that it would be convenient if, in register- 

 ing prehistoric remains, the Committee would adopt a uniform scheme of 

 signs — if possible an international one. 



Mr. William Gray stated that the work of registering ancient remains 

 had been carried on for 25 or 30 years by members of his Society 

 (Belfast Naturalists' Field Club) and others in Ireland, and they had 



