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some uniform system should be adopted. Professor Windle of Birmingham 

 would be happy to send a schedule of the various measurements required, 

 and of the way in which they should be made. 



The Rev. J. O. Bevan spoke of the desirability of expediting the 

 Archaeological Survey of the kingdom which had been begun a few years 

 ago. He had been working at the map of Herefordshire for some years, 

 and it was then almost ready for publication. It could not be too widely 

 known that the Society of Antiquaries was willing to bear the expense of 

 printing the maps if the work on them was done in accordance with the 

 conditions laid down. He was surprised that this work liad not been 

 taken up more energetically by properly qualified persons in the different 

 districts, so that it might be executed with as little delay as possible. He 

 hoped each delegate would take an early opportunity of reporting the 

 proceedings at these Conferences to the society he represented. 



The Chairman believed that it was generally understood that it was 

 the duty of each delegate to report their proceedings to his society. 



Mr. Hopkinson stated that he had brought the work of the Ethno- 

 graphical Survey Committee before the Hertfordshire Natural History 

 Society, but had failed to get the matter taken up. He found that the ques- 

 tions asked were considered too inquisitorial. Possibly a simpler system 

 might be found to answer better in practice, as more persons or societies 

 would then be found willing to undertake the work. 



Mr. Hartland replied that, though they hoped in many cases to get 

 the elaborate measurements asked for, they were glad to obtain such 

 measurements and photographs as could be procured. He was afraid that 

 the elaboration of their schedule must have acted to some extent as a 

 deterrent, though it was drawn up as a standard to which they hoped to 

 attain, not as necessarily obligatory in every case. Possibly, if this were 

 understood, societies would respond more warmly to their appeals for help. 



Dr. Brett (Hertfordshire) said that since the York meeting of the 

 British Association fifteen years ago it had been his custom as a medical 

 man to record the weight, height, colour of hair and eyes, &c., of children. 

 He had up to that time made about three thousand observations, but had 

 not yet been able to put his records into shape. 



Mr. Hopkinson (referring to the Ethnographical Survey) remarked 

 that his experience was that of others as to the difficulty of getting any 

 one to make the very elaborate series of measurements asked for. He 

 would suggest some simpler scheme as an alternative. 



Mr. Hartland hoped that members who objected to the elaborate 

 measurements would take up the subjects of dialect, folklore, or 

 historical or prehistoric monuments. They wanted information on all 

 these points. 



The Chairman remarked that the work might usefully be divided 

 among various sub-committees. If that were done all societies would 

 do good work in one department or another, if not in all. 



The Conference then came to an end. 



The Committee recommend the retention of all the societies now on 

 the list except the Cumberland and Westmoreland Association, which has 

 ceased to exist. 



The Committee have pleasure in reporting that the Caradoc and 

 Severn Valley Field Club and the Buchan Field Club have been added 

 to the list of Corresponding Societies. 



