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Dr. Vacbell said that the proposal to form a committee had been 

 seconded in Section D by Canon Tristram, who had strongly advocated 

 three Bills which had passed through the House of Commons, and whose 

 extensive practical knowledge of the subject was beyond question. 



The resolution was finally put to the meeting and carried with one 

 dissentient. 



Popularising of Natural History Studies. — Professor Merivale said 

 that it might interest the Delegates to learn what was being done in 

 Newcastle to popularise natural history, especially among young people. 

 They had a ' Dicky Bird Society,' numbering some 220,000 members, 

 and articles were published from time to time in the ' Newcastle Weekly 

 Chronicle.' One hundred and twenty species of birds had already been 

 described and illustrated, and the whole series, when complete, would be 

 rejjublished in a separate form. 



Mr. Sowerbutts also alluded to the useful dissemination of geo- 

 graphical and zoological knowledge through the same publication ('New- 

 castle Weekly Chronicle'), and spoke in high terms of the illustrations, 

 which, especially in the case of the birds, had been executed with 

 remarkable success by some photo-mechanical process. 



Botanical Demonstrations for Teachers. — Professor Lelpner called 

 attention to this subject, and invited all teachers in public, private, and 

 Board schools to attend two demonstrations at University College, 

 Bi-istol. His plan was to select three or four familiar wild flowers and 

 demonstrate their structure by means of diagrams on the blackboard. 

 T'he experiment had been tried one year, and had been so successful that 

 he had been asked to repeat it a second year. 



Section H. 



Description of Museum Specimens. — Dr. Garson said that it was very 

 necessary for all workers in anthropology to know where specimens were 

 preserved, especially in the case of local museums. It was sometimes 

 impossible to visit these museums personally, and the best thing under 

 the circumstances was to have a good description of the different speci- 

 mens. This was a subject which the members of local societies might 

 very well take up. Not only should the implements and other finds be 

 described, but the conditions under which they were found should be 

 carefully and completely recorded. 



Registration of Frehistoric Remains. — Dr. Garson announced that this 

 Committee, of which Mr. J. W. Davis was the secretary, had been re- 

 appointed. He urged upon the Delegates the importance of assisting in 

 this work, and asked those who desired information as to the method of 

 recording to communicate with Mr. Davis. 



Aid in Anthropological Exploration. — Dr. Garson made some further 

 remarks on this subject in continuation of the observations which he had 

 made at the last Conference. He said that there was a general notion 

 that in the case of human remains the skull was the only part of the 

 .skeleton worth preserving. This was a great mistake. The skull 

 was undoubtedly valuable, but no less valuable were the other parts of 

 the skeleton, particularly the long bones and the pelvis. Great care 

 should be taken to preserve all bones and to keep the bones of each 

 skeleton sepai-ate, so that the stature and other characteristics of each 

 individual skeleton could be ascertained. It happened sometimes from 



