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material was so abundant. He had there the result of an archisolowical 

 survey of Kent and a scheme applicable to the county of Gloucester. 

 There were also the books prepared by the Anthropological Institute and 

 the Folklore Society. All these works gave instructions for working 

 in the way desired. But their bulk made it necessary that the Committee 

 should devise something smaller for the exploration, and that would be 

 the first of its labours. The Committee would then send a pamphlet 

 containing the needed suggestions to every Corresponding Society. 



Baihuay Facilities. — -Mr. Sowerbutts thought better terms might be 

 obtained from the railway companies for delegates and others travelling 

 to meetings of the British Association. The Chairman and Mr. Symons 

 promised to represent the matter to the Council of the Association. 

 The Corresponding Societies Committee now have to report that in accord- 

 ance with this promise a strong committee of the Council was appointed, 

 on the motion of Professor Meldola, and a representation made to the 

 authorities at the Clearing House, but no concession could be obtained 

 beyond what is allowed by Traffic Regulation No. 30, viz., ' Members are 

 allowed during a Meeting to take railway tickets at the town where the 

 Meeting is held at a single fare for the double journey to places within a 

 distance of fifty miles.' 



The Committee recommend the retention of all the societies at 

 present on the list, with the exception of the Barnsley Naturalists' and 

 Scientific Society, which had not filled in and returned the schedule at the 

 time of the Meeting of the Committee. 



In order to make the publications of the Corresponding Societies 

 available for reference, the Committee decided to have them bound. 

 Accordingly Mr. Topley and Mr. T. V. Holmes (Secretary) were in- 

 structed to examine them and to select for binding some of the more 

 complete and valuable. Fifty-eight volumes have already been bound 

 and placed on the shelves of the Association. Others will be added from 

 time to time as the amount of the grant available for this purpose may 

 allow. 



