CXX1V REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



I have to thank you for your kind interest in this matter, and trust 

 that it may assist us in securing the necessary facilities for undertaking 

 the work on a scale commensurate with its urgency and importance. 

 The new National Museum will afford some of the requisite facilities. 



I may say that the Government has shown appreciation of the value 

 of the work by enabling us two years ago to make a beginning in this 

 direction. "We have an ethnologist at present living with the Esquimaux 

 in the Arctic. A preliminary report on his observations appears in the 

 Geological Survey Summary Report for 1908. With the assistance of 

 the Canadian Archaeological Societies and the very kind support which 

 the British Association has given in its Resolution, I have strong hopes 

 that something worth while may be accomplished along these lines. 



I should like to take this opportunity of expressing to the British 

 Association my profound regrets that, owing to illness, I was unable to 

 attend the Winnipeg Meeting to meet the individual members or to 

 personally do anything for them. 



I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, 



Your obedient Servant, 



(Signed) R. W. Brock. 

 The Secretaries, 



British Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 Burlington House, 



Piccadilly, London, W., 

 England. 



It was subsequently reported to the Council by the General Officers 

 that information had reached them that the Dominion Government of 

 Canada had authorised the payment of the salary of an ethnologist for 

 the Dominion, and also a grant for the collection of ethnological 

 material. This may be regarded as a direct outcome of the representa- 

 tions made by the British Association. 



VII. A Recommendation received by the General Committee at 

 Winnipeg and referred to the Council was agreed to : — 



That the following Committee be authorised to receive contributions 

 from sources other than the Association : 



' To conduct Explorations with a view to ascertaining the Age of 

 Stone Circles. ' (Section H.) 



A Recommendation received by the General Committee at Winnipeg, 

 and referred to the Council, was agreed to, amended as under: — 



' That the collection of the Anthropological Photographs printed 

 by the Anthropological Photographs Committee be, and 

 that all further Photographs received by Jjhem may be, 

 handed over to the custody of the Roya&SRnthropological 

 Institute." (Section H.) m ' 



VIII. Following a suggestion made at the Winnipeg Meeting, a list 

 of desiderata for the Library of the University of Manitoba was obtained 

 from the Librarian, and has been widely distributed by order of the 



