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that an approach should be made to the County Councils in order to 

 get assistance for forming museums and keeping them in order. Many 

 museums had gone to utter decay from the -want of an endowment. 

 Those at Newcastle, York, Manchester, Liverpool, and Norwich were all 

 endowed. On the other hand, that at Lynn, in Norfolk, for want of 

 an endowment was mouldering away. Local societies should try to pro- 

 mote interest in the local museum, so that they might raise an endow- 

 ment fund, by the help of wealthy residents and the County Council, in 

 order to keep a curator, without whom a museum was of little use. 



Section H. 



Proposed Ethnological Survey. — Mr. Brabrook said he was deputed by 

 the Committee of Section H to ask the approval and assistance of the 

 Corresponding Societies in the organisation of an Ethnological Survey of 

 the United Kingdom. The attempt to organise this survey was being 

 made by a committee of delegates from the Society of Antiquaries, the 

 Anthropological Institute, and the Folklore Society. These delegates 

 represented the various points of view of the societies electing them, and 

 he felt sure of the sympathy of the Corresponding Societies in this 

 movement. The matter was one which would not brook delay ; every 

 year tended to increase its difficulties, and if postponed much longer it 

 ■would become impossible to proceed at all. Several of the Corresponding 

 Societies had been working in this direction, and it would only be necessary 

 for them to follow the instructions which would be sent down to them by 

 the Ethnological Survey Committee when it began its labours. From 

 the reports of the Corresponding Societies he learnt that thirty-three 

 of them had been at work on this subject during the last eight years, 

 and that during that period 100 members of these societies had con- 

 tributed papers on it to the ' Proceedings.' He would urge them, therefore, 

 to look at men from the three points of view indicated. He agreed with 

 the Rev. Canon Tristram that field clubs should include archeology 

 among their subjects of study. It was absurd to look at man merely 

 from the natural history point of view, and ignore his archaeological 

 aspects. 



Preservation of Ancient Reviains. — Mr. Whitaker said that in the 

 Hampshire district it had been found that a remonstrance against the 

 destruction of ancient remains usually had a good effect. Proprietors 

 often did not know the interest and value of antiquities on their estates, 

 but cared for them after they became aware of it. Certain Government 

 departments sometimes needed similar education. One of the best 

 Hampshire tumuli was almost destroyed recently in the making of a rifle 

 butt. 



Mr. W. Gi'ay remarked that, in Ireland, Government was very anxious 

 to preserve all monuments, and that the Naturalists' Field Club of 

 Belfast not only did its best to keep them uninjured but also photo- 

 graphed them. He had pleasure in exhibiting some of these photographs, 

 copies of which might be obtained by anyone interested in geology or 

 archfeology on application to the local secretary. 



The Chairman was sure the Corresponding Societies would do their 

 best to assist Mr. Brabrook, and he would ask that gentleman if he 

 would point out in what way the societies could best help him. 



Mr. Brabrook said it was a little difficult to do so because the 



