8^ REPORT 1875. 



the General Committee of the Association, as expressed in their Resolution, 

 might be carried out. 



No complete account of the work of the last twelve months has yet been 

 received from Lieut. Conder, E.E., the officer in charge of the Survej- ; but 

 from his monthly reports to the Committee of the Fund, it would appear that, 

 since the grant of £100 was made, the triangulation of Palestine has been 

 carried southwards as far as Beersheba, and that a large tract of interest- 

 ing country, including the plain of Philistia and the southern slopes of the 

 mountains of Judah, has been surveyed and plotted on a scale of one inch to 

 a mile. 



Amongst other results have been the recovery of several ancient sites, and 

 the corrections of many errors in the topography of Southern Palestine, 



Lieuts. Conder and Kitchener, E..E., were recently engaged in running a 

 line of levels from the Mediterranean to the Sea of Galilee ; but this work 

 was unfortunately stopped by the attack made upon Lieut. Conder and his 

 party by the people of Safed. 



Lieut. Conder, who was badly wounded, has been unable to send a full 

 report on the levelling; but in a letter written shortly before the affray he 

 mentioned that more than ten miles, or about one third of the levelling, had 

 been completed, and gave some details of the manner in which the work was 

 being carried out. The line of levels was being run by two independent 

 observers (non-commissioned officers from the Ordnance Survey) ; bench- 

 marks were being cut at frequent intervals, and their position fixed by a line 

 of traverse survey from the Mediterranean to the Sea of Galilee, which will 

 be laid down on the one-inch survey. 



Lieut.-Gen. Sir Henry James, the Director-General of the Ordnance Survey, 

 was kind enough to lend instrument? for the work, and he has taken much 

 interest in its progress. 



In consequence of the attack on the Survey party and the spread of cholera, 

 it has been decided to withdraw Lieut. Conder and his staff from Palestine for 

 the present ; but as soon as the Survey is recommenced the levelhng will be 

 completed. 



Third Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor Harkness, 

 Prof. Prestwich, Prof. Hughes, Rev. H. W. Crosskey, Prof. W. 

 Boyd Dawkins, Messrs. C. J. Woodward, George Maw, L. C. 

 MiALL, G. H. Morton, one? J. E. Lee, appointed for the purpose of 

 recording the position, height above the sea, lithological characters, 

 size, and origin of the more important of the Erratic Blocks of 

 England and Wales, reporting other matters of interest connected 

 with the same, and taking measures for their preservation. Drawn 

 up hij the Rev. H. W. Crosskey, Secretary. 



The Committee have received many valuable contributions regarding the 

 occurrence and distribution of Erratic Boulders, The inquiry is not yet 

 sufficiently exhaustive in its details to permit of any generalization ; and the 

 Committee find it necessary to continue their record without attempting as 

 yet to connect the facts they report with theories of the history of the glacial 

 epoch. 



It will be observed, however, (1) that our knowledge of the extent of 



