REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1923-24. XV 
V. Resolutions referred by the General Committee at the Liverpool 
| Meeting to the Council for consideration, and, if desirable, for action, were 
dealt with as follows :— 
(a) Following upon resolutions received from all Sections excepting 
Section F, and from the Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies, 
regarding the provision of more adequate accommodation for the Science 
Museum, South Kensington, the Council addressed the following on the 
subject: The First Lord of the Treasury, the Lord President of the Council, 
the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Secretary of State for War, the 
Minister for Air, the President of the Board of Education, the First Com- 
missioner of Works, the Minister of Health, the President of the Board of 
Trade, the Secretary for Mines, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Office 
of Works and Transport (Board of Trade), the Postmaster-General, the 
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries. 
(b) Following upon resolutions from several Sections and the Conference 
of Delegates, dealing with the need for more adequate protection of sites 
of scientific and historical interest, the Council addressed the appropriate 
Government Departments, and summoned a conference at which H.M. 
Office of Works and the following societies and institutions were repre- 
sented: The Royal Anthropological Institute, the Congress of Archeo- 
logical Societies, the Architectural Association, the Folklore Society, the 
Royal Geographical Society, the Geological Society, the Geologists’ 
Association, the Linnean Society, the National Trust, the British Ornitho- 
logists’ Union, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, the 
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, and the Zoological Society. 
The chair was taken by the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres. 
No resolution was formulated, but the discussion in general revealed 
cordial agreement with the suggestion contained in the letter summoning 
the conference, that the sole effective remedy appears to be that learned 
societies not immediately concerned in a particular problem of con- 
servation should take concerted steps to promote legislation wider in scope 
and more strictly worded than the Ancient Monuments Act now in force 
for the protection of such sites. 
(c) Following upon resolutions from several Sections and the Con- 
ference of Delegates, a letter dealing with the suspension of the sale of 
quarter-sheets of the 6-in. Ordnance Map was addressed to the Director- 
General of the Ordnance Survey, who courteously informed the Council 
of the reasons which had rendered this step necessary. 
(d) The Council gave effect to resolutions dealing with the publication 
of the reports of Committees on Geographical Teaching and on Complex 
Stress Distribution in Engineering Materials ; and approved proposals as to 
the destination of ‘ finds’ from the excavations at Avebury. 
(ec) The Council approved the following resolutions from the 
Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies :-— 
To recommend that the publications of scientific societies should conform so far 
as possible to a standard size of page for convenience in dealing with off-prints ; and 
that for octavo publications the size of the British Association’s Report be adopted as 
the standard. 
