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increased attention to Geography in connection with the worlv in liistory.' This 

 view is also applicable to the new Group D courses allowed under the recent 

 Regulations. 



(3) Geography is not accepted as a main subject in Group A (Science and 

 Mathematics). 



The groups B, C, D, referred to in (2) above refer to main subjects of study 

 in advanced courses, and, as defined in the Regulations, consist respectively of 

 ' (B) Classics, viz., the civilisation of the ancient world as embodied in the 

 language, literature, and history of Greece and Rome ; (C) Modern Studies, 

 viz., the language, literature and history of the countries of Western Europe 

 in modern and mediteval times ; (D) the civilisation (i) of Greece or Rome, and 

 (ii) of England or another country of Western Europe in modern times, as 

 embodied in their language, literature, and history.' 



The correspondence embodying the above statement was published 

 in the Press by order of the Council with the consent of the Board. 

 (Eesolution of Sections E and L.) 



Tlie Council, after further correspondence with the Board, were 

 gratified to learn from the Draft Regulations for Secondary Schools, 

 1922, that the position of Geography in the curriculum was to be mate- 

 rially strengthened, and that it was to be included as a principal subject 

 in Advanced Courses (Group E). 



(e) The Council conveyed to the Census authorities of the United 

 Kingdom a recommendation that the final census report should include 

 the population not merely of municipal and other administrative areas, 

 but also of urban aggregates. The recommendation was acknowledged 

 by the Registrar-General. (Eesolution of Section E.) 



(/) The Council caused inquiry to be made as to the use of 

 ■Mercator's projection for the international series of aeronautical maps. 

 (Resolution of Section E.) Further discussion is anticipated in Sec- 

 tion E at the Hull Meeting. 



(g) The Council addressed universities, colleges, and a number of 

 societies, chambers of commerce, etc., on the subject of the teaching 

 of anthropology. A conference was then convened at Burlington House 

 on May 23, 1922, and was attended by representatives of most of the 

 bodies addressed, and a committee was nominated, and subsequently 

 appointed by the Council, to confer with the Royal Anthropological 

 Institute as to the possibility of its acting as a central institution for the 

 encouragement of more general interest in anthropological studies, &c. 

 (Resolution of Section H.) 



Further consideration was delayed owing to the death of Dr. 

 W. H. R. Rivers, President of the Institute, whom the Council deeply 

 deplore both as a valued colleague and as President-designate of Section J 

 for the Hull Meeting. 



Qi) The Council, on inquiry, found it unnecessary to proceed in 

 the matter of a resolution of Section L on the position of music in the 

 curriculum of secondary schools. 



(J) The Council referred to the President of the Royal Society and, 

 in his discretion, the Conjoint Board of Scientific Societies, the sub- 

 stance of resolutions by Section L and the Conference of Delegates 

 on the high cost of postage of societies' publications. 



IV. The Council took no action upon a resolution received from the 

 Organising Committee of Section K (Botany) proposing that forestry 

 should be regarded ns included in the work of that Section, and a 



