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2. Each delegate to bring a copy of the annual volume of his Society to be 
placed on the lounge-room table. 
3. Each delegate to be furnished with the agenda of the meeting a day or two 
before it takes place. 
4. A social gathering of delegates (supper, conversazione, &c.) to be a 
feature of the annual meeting of the British Association. 
5. Any other means which can be suggested to make the Conferences really 
helpful. 
The above proposals led to a lively discussion, during which it was pointed 
out that the Conference stood on altogether a different plane from the Sections ; 
that every delegate was largely interested in one or other of the Sections ; that 
the time of the members during the week of the meeting was already fully 
occupied; and that as the delegates were all members of the Association they 
could not expect special advantages in the way of rooms which other members 
of the Association had not got. ‘The matter was also carried a step further by 
Mr, Whitaker pointing: out that any changes in the arrangements of the Con- 
ference could only be brought before the Council through the Corresponding 
Societies Committee, on which sat as ex-officio members the President and 
officers of the Association. Mr. A. H. Garstang thereupon proposed :— That 
it be a recommendation to the Corresponding Societies Committee to form a 
committee of the delegates themselves to discuss during the provincial meetings 
questions of administration and the proper application of their energies which 
suggest themselves during the meetings of the Conference.’ This was seconded 
and carried. 
Mr. Harold Peake (Anthropological Section) brought the following matters 
before the Conference from the committee of his Section :— 
1. That material illustrating the folk-lore of the British Isles was much 
desired, especially from the Scotch districts. All information on this subject to 
be addressed to Miss Charlotte Burne, c/o The Folk-Lore Society (5 Terrace 
Gardens, Kensington, London, W.). 
2. Evidence was also required as to the distribution throughout the British 
Isles of implements dating from the early part of the Bronze Age, especially 
flat celts. Information on this subject to be sent to Mr. Peake, Westbrook 
House, Newbury. 
Through the kindness of the Selborne Society Mr. Wilfred Mark Webb 
read the following paper, which was illustrated by a series of slides from photo- 
graphs taken in the sanctuary. 
The Brent Valley Bird Sanctuary—An Experiment in Bird Protection. 
By Witrrep Marx Wess, I’.L.S., F.R.M.S., Honorary Secretary 
of the Selborne Society. 
The difficulties of administering the Wild Birds Protection Act are well 
known, but it is possible for individuals and societies with alittle trouble to do 
something towards preserving birds, and it is an experiment in this direction 
which I am going to describe. 
Some eight or nine years ago it was suggested, at a committee meeting of the 
Brent Valley branch of the Selborne Society, that some steps might be taken to 
protect the nightingales which were known to nest in a wood of about nineteen 
acres lying between Ealing and Harrow, which comes within the boundary of 
the London Postal District. A small sub-committee of three members, of whom 
I happened to be one, was appointed to make arrangements, if possible, for the 
wood to be watched in the nesting season. 
As a result, it became part of the duties of a farm-hand to attend to warn 
off bird-catchers and bird’s-nesting boys. After a year, however, the committee 
took over the wood, employed a watcher of their own, and kept up the hedges 
with their own hands. But though success was attained in other directions, the 
nightingales were not heard for several seasons—in fact, not until the appoint- 
ment of the present keeper, who is engaged all the year round, and takes a 
particular interest in his work. 
