226 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE.—1917, : 
societies’ headquarters. At Croydon we deposit the maps, photographs, and 
other material at the public library, where they are available for public refer- 
ence and are of great use to local teachers. The ideal to aim at, however, is 
the formation at each centre of a regional museum. Such museums, and there 
are some in existence, with regional surveys behind them, become very living 
institutions in the districts, and help both visitors and inhabitants to under- 
stand what the places have been in the past, what they now stand for, and 
what are their possibilities for the future. 
Mr. Grorce Morris (of the Regional Survey Association, a visitor) said : 
I should like to point out the rather wider aspect of the Regional Survey as 
we consider it in the Regional Survey Committee. During the last twenty 
years a great deal of change has taken place in the teaching of geography and 
in the teaching of history. As regards archeology, the practical end of the 
teacher’s work is gradually to reach out to taking the child from the confines 
cf the schoolroom, and putting him in his education in contact with actualities. 
That is one of the things we of the Regional Survey are out for, and it is 
almost impossible for the average school-teacher, who comes from a hundred 
miles away and knows very little about the surroundings, to effect this. We 
should like to see every secondary school in England, both teachers and pupils, 
undertaking a regional survey on the lines Mr. Fagg has put before us. The 
history, the geography, and the archeology would be indicated on maps. The 
zone where the school is would be the regional zone, and the map would show 
the local applications, where the Iccal remains or the local specimens and so on 
are. To do this we have an Educational Sub-Committee which is trying to 
institute such surveys. Then we have a sub-committee which is endeavour- 
ing to register at any rate and obtain the interest of the scientific societies in 
local work of the kind; and also we have a Museums and Local Societies 
Sub-Committee. We hold meetings to which we invite teachers from the 
different schools. We invite scientific men who have special knowledge to 
join us, and we ask the local people who are interested in archeology or 
geology, and so on, to give us help. Then we devote a week to study and the 
reading of papers. This has been done with success. We have invited the 
co-operation of various bodies, specialist association bodies, and an inter- 
committee has been formed. JI should point out that this Regional 
Committee is endeavouring to synthesise in different directions the various 
branches of inquiry, and make them available for general reference. The under- 
lying idea of the whole of the Regional Survey is that you have a community 
which is an organic entity, and, like every organic being, is dependent on its 
surroundings for its being and for its present condition. In other words, I 
define it as the study of the Ecology of the Human Community. 
Mr. J. Oscar Parker (Chairman of the Council of the Selborne Society. 
a visitor) said : I do not know how I can convey a better impression of the scheme 
which has developed than by suggesting that if a second William the Con- 
queror took up his residence in England at some shortly future day, he would, 
if this work has been completed according to the lines which Mr. Fagg has 
presented to us, find a Domesday Book ready to his hand. He would he able to 
gather into his autocratic hand all the estates, all the woods, all the lands that, 
exist to-day, without appointing a commission to go about the country. Why, 
then, should it not be of tremendous interest to ourselves? If this work is 
carried out throughout the country we shall have a remarkable survey of the 
whole of our beloved country right at hand. 
Miss Layarp said that some years ago, when she was making excavations on 
the site of conventual buildings in Ipswich, she made use of the Ordnance 
Survey map, and distinguished in colours the buildings of the convents, 
priories, and so on. 
The Rev. J. O. Brvan said they wanted specialists for carrying on a survey 
of this kind: persons specially trained in other matters (ethnological, for 
instance) that are involved in a survey of this sort, sc as to secure that one 
series of facts will not interfere with another. It is oftentimes a danger when 
you get persons partially educated involved in such work. 
Mr. Harry Sowersutrts (Manchester Geographical Society) referred to 
regional surveys that were being carried on for the improvement and replanning 
