REPOlif OF THE dOUNClL. Ixxxvii 



' H.M. Office of Works, 



' April 30, 1903. 



« Sir,— A copy of your letter of the 31st ultimo to the President of the 

 Local Government Board having been forwarded to this Department, I am 

 directed by the First Commissioner of His Majesty's Works, &c., to state 

 that it appears to this Board that the prevention of the damage to Ancient 

 Monuments, to which you invite attention, is a matter in which the 

 County Councils could most effectively take action, certain powers ^being 

 conferred on those bodies by the Ancient Monuments Act 1900 (63 & 64 

 Vic, c. U). 



' I am, Sir, 



' Your obedient Servant, 



(Signed) ' Schomberg K. McDonnell. 

 'Professor Dewar, F.R.S.' 



On the Resolution III. the following letter was addressed, with the 

 approval of the Council, to the President of the Royal Irish Academy :— 



' British Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 ' Burlington House, London, W., 



'March 31, 1903. 



' Dear Sir,— I am desired by the Council to inform you that at the 

 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science held 

 last year at Belfast the question of the desirability of organising a 

 Pigmentation Survey of the School Children in Ireland was discussed on 

 the reading of a paper on that subject by INIr. J. F. Tocher, a copy of 

 which is herewith inclosed. 



' The Council venture to hope that the Royal Irish Academy, having 

 for many years interested itself practically in tlie investigation of the 

 Ethnography of Ireland, will carefully consider the scheme outhned in 

 the paper, and may be induced to take up the work. 



' The Council are of opinion that as a Pigmentation Survey of the 

 School Children in Scotland is at present being conducted, a correspond- 

 ing survey of the School Children in Ireland would be of considerable 

 scientific value, and could not be carried out under better auspices than 

 those of the Royal Irish Academy. 



' I am. Sir, 



' Yours faithfully, 

 (Signed) ' James Dewak, President. 



' To the President of the 



' Royal Irish Academy, Dublin.' 



The following letter was received from the Colonial Secretary for 



Bermuda : — 



' Colonial Secretary's Office, Hamilton, Bermuda, 



• October 17, 1902. 



I Sir,— I am directed by His Excellency the Governor of Bermuda to 

 request you to be good enough to submit the following matter for the 

 consideration of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. 



' A Committee of the Legislature of this Colony, appointed to consider 

 and report what steps it would be desirable to take locally with a view 

 to the establishment and maintenance of a Marine Biological Station in 

 these islands, has reported in favour of the establishment of such a station, 

 and has recommended that the Legislature should make provision for its 



