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systematic survey and register of all ancient remains, and also the ouf- 

 lines of a classification of them. The Committee recommends that local 

 observers should put themselves in communication with the editors of 

 these ' Histories ' (2 Orange Street, Leicester Square, W.C.), with the 

 object of making this record complete and of reducing the risk of 

 overlap and duplication. The Committee submits this recommendation 

 more particularly to the consideration of the Conference of Delegates of 

 Corresponding Societies. 



Finally the Committee desires to impress upon the British Association 

 the serious risk to megalithic monuments which results from the present 

 inadequate provisions and ineffective working of the Ancient Monuments 

 Act. The registration and classification of megalithic monuments falls 

 clearly within tlie proper province of an official inspector of ancient 

 monuments ; and in other counti'ies, which value their monuments, the 

 work in question usually forms one of the duties of such an inspector. 



Notes ami Queries in Anthropology. — hiterim Report of the Co7nmittee, 

 comisiiiig of Mr. C. H. Head (Chairman), Professor J. L. Myres 

 (Secretary). Professor D. J. Cunnlvgham, Mr. E. N. Fallaize, 

 Dr. A. C. Haddon, Mr. T. A. Joyce, Dr. C. S. Myers, and Dr. 

 W. H. R. Rivers, apjjointed to prepare a new edition of Notes and 

 Queries in Anthropology. 



The work of revision, of which an outline was given in last year's 

 report, has been continued ; but it has not yet been thought desirable to 

 begin the reprinting. The Committee, therefore, has incurred no ex- 

 Ijenditure, and wishes to be reappointed, with renewal of the original 

 grant. 



Excavations on Roman Sites in Britain. — Report of the Committee, 

 consisting of Professor J. L. Myres (Chairman), Professor R. P. 

 BosANQUET (Secretary), Sir Edward Brabrook, Dr. T. Ashby, 

 Mr. D. G. Hogarth, and Professor W. Ridgeway, appointed to 

 co-operate with Local Committees in Excavations on Roman Sites 

 in Britai7i. 



The Committee has made grants of 51. in each case in aid of exca- 

 vations on Roman sites at Caerwent, at Corbridge, and at Gelligaer, near 

 Cai'diff. In each case the grant has been made on the same conditions as 

 in former years ; namely, that it should be applied to carry out special 

 investigations in regard either to pre-Roman i-emains found in the course 

 of the excavations already in progress, or to non-Roman objects such as 

 plant and animal remains, which might otherwise have been put on one 

 side. The Appendices A and B show the mode in which the grants made 

 by the Committee have been expended at Caerwent and at Corbridge 



