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nised system of signs. He thought that the Delegates might see that 

 Bucli lists and maps were prepared for their own localities, the results 

 being finally collected and transferred to one general map of the whole 

 kingdom. The Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, which he represented, 

 ■would be glad to assist in the work, and had already prepared maps and 

 lists for the north of Ireland, which were only waiting for the approved 

 Bet of signs. 



Professor Boyd Dawkins alluded to the necessity of having the work 

 done as rapidly as possible, and ^Ir. J. W. Davis pointed out that the 

 International Archaeological Congress, which met at Stockholm in 1874, 

 had adopted a set of signs which had been published in the ' Comptes 

 Rendus ' of the Cungress as well as in the ' Journal of the Anthropological 

 Institute.' He thought that these signs might well be adopted and used 

 on the one-inch ordnance map. Mr. P. T. Mott siiggested that it would 

 be an advantage if these signs could be reprinted and circulated among 

 the local Societies willing to take part in the work. 



The Chairman (Dr. Evans) stated that two distinct bodies were now 

 at work upon this proposed catalogue of ancient remains, the British 

 Association Committee, of which Mr. Davis was the secretary, and the 

 Society of Antiquaries. The last-named Society proposed to summon a 

 congress of Delegates from all the local Archaeological Societies in the 

 course of the year, with the object of promoting a complete archaeological 

 survey of the whole country. This, of course, need not interfere with 

 the surveys by the local Societies. With respect to maps he remarked that 

 a small scale, viz., -^ inch to the mile, had been adopted in the ' Archseo- 

 logia,' and in the course of the year a survey of Kent would appear in 

 that publication. 



General Pitt- Rivers, Inspector of Ancient Monuments, pointed out 

 that the proposed archaeological survey was quite distinct from the Ancient 

 Monuments Act, the working of which he had fully explained in his address 

 to the Anthropological Section.' After remarking that none of the local 

 Societies had rendered any assistance in getting the landowners in their 

 districts to place their monuments under the protection of the Act, the 

 Inspector stated that these Societies were, in the present state of the law, 

 in a better position to see to the preservation of their ancient monuments 

 than any Government Inspector, and he urged upon the Delegates the neces- 

 sity of recommending their respective Societies to take this duty upon 

 themselves. The Bill as at first drafted was intended to have been com- 

 pulsory, but in its present form it was only permissive. He did not think 

 the Government should be made responsible for the preservation of all 

 the ancient monuments, but he was decidedly of opinion that the Act should 

 be modified, and that more authority should be given to the Inspector. 

 As he had stated in his Presidential Address, he had obtained eleven new 

 monuments during the year, but had been obliged to resign three because 

 the Government would not consent to take them over. 



Sir John Lubbock observed that as the Act was originally framed the 

 proposal was as follows : — The monuments mentioned in the schedule to 

 the Bill, and any others subsequently included in the list by the authority 

 constituted, were declared to be ancient national monuments within the 

 meaning of the Act. If, then, the owner of any such monument wished 

 to destroy or mutilate it, he was bound before doing so to give notice to 

 the proper authority, who then had three months to consider whether it 



' Report, 1888, p. 825. 



