26 BEPORT— 1894. 



Mr. Andrews recently visited a small village inn in North War- 

 wickshire, where he saw cases of birds' eggs arranged in the form of 

 crowns. These crowns were sold for £b each. 



Mr. Kenward thought it would be better to appeal to the common- 

 sense and humanity of the collector than to pat up notices in Board 

 schools. 



Mr. Symons thought an appeal to the common-sense of the people 

 would have a good efiiect, and that it was useless to trust to legislation. 

 People who made crowns of eggs were irreclaimable. 



Mr. Torr said, on behalf of Nottingham, tliat he -would undertake 

 that the matter should be brought before the School Board. 



Museums. — Mr. Holmes read a letter from Mr. W. Cole, Hon. Sec. 

 Essex Field Club, on the maintenance of local museums. Mr. Cole 

 thousrht that if an annual sum for the maintenance of local museums 

 could be obtained from the Technical Education Grants in each county 

 there would be no great difficulty in obtaining substantial sums towards 

 buildings and fittings. The fear that a museum might not be permanent 

 often kept back subscriptions. Donations, both of money and of specimens, 

 would rapidly come in when once the public felt that the museum would 

 be permanent ; and in no way could a portion of the Technical Educa- 

 tion Grant be better expended than in placing on a satisfactory footing 

 the local museum of the county, 



Mr. Symons thought the idea of getting a grant from the source 

 suggested a very good one. 



The Chairman hoped that members of the Corresponding Societies 

 would occasionally read papers on the specimens in their local museums, 

 each writer keeping to a certain department. These papers, if published, 

 would be catalogued in the Association's list, and brought before the 

 notice of many workers in the same stibject elsewhere. They would also 

 be available for reference at headquarters in London. 



Mr. Stirrup believed that something had been done in that way. A 

 Museums Association had been started, and had met that year in London. 

 In the report from the Owens College Museum there was a paper dealing 

 with the subject of type specimens. 



The Chairman thought that the object of the Museums Association 

 was rather to discuss the best kinds of general arrangement than to 

 describe the contents of museums. 



Mr. Stirrup and Mr. Tate both expressed an opinion that descriptions 

 of type specimens would be very valuable. 



Section H. 



The Chairman said that, as representative of Section H, he had 

 to draw the attention of the delegates and the Corresponding Societies 

 to the — 



Ethnographical Survey of the United Kingdom. — The first Report of 

 the Committee had been placed in the hands of the delegates at their 

 first conference, and he hoped they would bring it before their respective 

 Societies, as the kind of work required is essentially local and such as 

 would give great scope for investigation to the members of their Societies. 

 It includes observations on (1) the physical types of the inhabitants, to be 

 ascertained by photographing and recording the characters and measure- 



