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Yorkshire the girls won all the prizes, and in Lancashire the boys. The 

 council of the Manchester Geographical Society thought that next time 

 they would test the secondary schools. His society had, for the last two 

 or three years, published an analysis of the chief geographical papers 

 which had been published in English and foreign journals, a necessary 

 though expensive work. He hoped that some day there would be an 

 international committee to deal with that matter. The report on the 

 Ordnance Survey was a very interesting and important one, and he hoped 

 the delegates would read it. 



Mr. Whitaker said that the report referred to had not reached 

 members of the Corresponding Societies Committee, and Mr. Sowerbutts 

 regretted having forgotten them. 



Section H. 



Ethnographical Survey. — Mr. Brabrook remarked that the delegates 

 had shown so much interest in this question, and so many had given 

 assistance, that he need only give some account of the progress made 

 since their last Conference. During the past year they had their list of 

 suitable villages considerably increased : there were now 367, a much 

 larger number than they had expected would be suggested as places 

 suitable for examination. It had taken much time to draw up the forms 

 of schedule, of which each delegate had received a copy, but he thought 

 the work well worth doing. He might mention that at Ipswich, where 

 they would meet next year, a sub-committee had been formed to assist 

 them, which had already been of much use ; while at Liverpool, where 

 they would meet in 1896, the keeper of the museum, Dr. Forbes, had been 

 kind enough to undertake that his assistant in the ethnographical 

 department should set to work on the lines we projjose to adopt. Many 

 gentlemen engaged in special observations at particular places might 

 obtain much assistance from the additional facts which had been collected 

 by Dr. Forbes. In Wales their sub-committee had met, and had formu- 

 lated some proposed regulations for action which the Central Committee 

 thought very wise, and they hoped that work would soon be begun in 

 "Wales on the lines indicated by Mr. Allen. In Ireland Professor Haddon 

 had drawn up a report of the work done there, which was of great im- 

 portance. In combination with Dr. C. R. Brown he had prepared a great 

 number of papers resembling the schedules of instructions issued by the 

 Central Committee. He hoped that his Honour Deemster Gill would 

 become interested in the matter, because they had two excellent corre- 

 spondents in the Isle of Man already — Mr. Moore and Mr. Kermode — and 

 it appeared to him that those three gentlemen would form an admirable 

 sub-committee for that quarter. In Scotland they had a promise of 

 assistance from gentlemen representing the Glasgow Archseological Society. 

 He had lately presided at a congress of archaeological societies, and had 

 made a statement on the subject of the Ethnographical Survey. The 

 organisers of the congress were good enough to ask him as to the cost of 

 an explanatory statement which could be circulated among their own 

 members with their transactions. He had answered that he would be 

 willing to pay for the setting-up of the statement, if the various societies 

 would pay the cost of printing off the number of copies required. He 

 would be pleased to make a similar arrangement with any of the corre- 

 sponding societies, and would be glad to receive suggestions of any kind 

 from any of the delegates present. He wished to make one additional 



