3-1 REroKT — 1892. 



Mr. Kermode said that in the Isle of Man they did pi-otect the eggs 

 as well as the birds, and he hoped that they would succeed in getting 

 similar protection in Great Britain. 



Section E. 



Teaclting of Geography in Primarij Schools. — Mr. Sowerbutts said 

 that he had not received any communications on this subject from the 

 Delegates, so that he could make no statement beyond what he had 

 gathered in a general way as to the education in the Manchester district. 

 He distributed among the Delegates a report on geographical education 

 which had been presented to the Council of the Manchester Geographical 

 Society, and which contained evidence of very great improvement in the 

 teaching of this subject. They had communicated with all the primary 

 schools in Lancashire and Yorkshire, offering to conduct examinations and 

 to give prizes. Replies had been received from three School Boards, a 

 number of children had sat for examination, and all the prizes had been 

 awarded. The two difficulties which had been met with were, first, the 

 pressure of time in primary schools ; and, secondly, that geography was 

 not a compulsory subject under the Code. He considered the report itself 

 as of great interest and value. One paper by Mr. Cardwell, of St. Bede's 

 College, might almost be nsed as a text-book by any teacher who would 

 adopt it for his pupils. Mr. Sowerbutts expressed his willingness to 

 follow up the subject, Avhich in his opinion had not received much en- 

 couragement from the Government Departments, and he added that if 

 the Delegates would refer to the report which he had circulated, and 

 communicate with him, he sliould be in a position to give a report at the 

 next meeting.' 



' ' Ordnance Maps. — The Chairman stated that at the Leeds meeting 

 last year a strong recommendation had been sent up to the Council as to 

 the cost, the antiquity, and the difficulty of procuring copies of the 

 Ordnance maps. The Council had communicated with Mr. Chaplin, of 

 the Board of Agriculture, and they had heard unofficially that material 

 alterations would be made, so that these maps would be very much more 

 accessible than heretofore. He added that, so far as his experience went, 

 nineteen-twentieths of the people of this country did not know how to 

 make use of an Ordnance map.^ 



Mr. Holgate said that it would be desirable to have the contours 

 of different heights printed in different colours. It would then be easy for 

 teachers to get their pupils to trace out these contours and cut them out 

 in cardboard. For teaching geography in an interesting way they could 

 not, in his opinion, have anything better than a raised map, made in this 

 manner. 



Mr. Peter Price mentioned, as an illustration of the slow progress of 



' Communications to be addresseil to I\Ir. Eli Sowerbutts, 44 Brown Street, Man- 

 chester. 



H^' ^ The following resolutions were referred by the General Committee to the 

 Council for consideration and action if desirable at the Cardiff meeting : — 



(1) ' That the publication of the one-inch and six-inch Ordnance Survey Maps i.s, 

 in the interests of Science, urgently required at the earliest possible date, no less 

 than in the interests of Industry, Manufacture, and Technical Education. 



(2) That steps be taken and provision made for keeping the Ordnance Maps up 

 to date. 



(3) That the I\Iaps should be made more accessible to the public, and should be 

 sold at a lower price, as is the case in nearly all other official publications, such as 

 Admiralty Charts, Blue Books, kc' 



