XXXil RESOLUTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS. 
RESOLUTIONS RELATING TO THE Report oF THE Hast AFRICAN 
CoMMISSION. 
(Approved for immediate action.) 
From Section E. 
The committee of Section E welcome and endorse the general recommendations 
with regard to the scientific services contained in the report of the East African 
Commission and trust that H.M. Government will take immediate action to give effect 
to them. Further they are of the opinion that a complete topographical survey of 
the five East African Territories is urgently required for all scientific and economic 
development. 
From Section H. ‘ 
To ask the Council of the British Association to express to H.M. Government its 
hearty concurrence in the recommendations contained in the report of the East 
African Commission in regard to scientific study of the local conditions and adminis- 
trative problems of the East African territories, and to urge the Government to give 
full and early effect to those recommendations. 
From Section M. 
The committee of Section M desire to ask the Council to memorialise the Colonial 
Office with a view to securing the adoption of the recommendations contained in the 
report of the East African Commission relating to the Amani research station. 
A resolution from Section L dealing with the treatment of the history of science 
at the Oxford Meeting was not approved, but it was resolved to recommend the Council 
to call the attention of Organising Committees to the desirability of including papers 
on the history of science, 
RESOLUTIONS FROM THE CONFERENCE OF DELEGATES OF 
CORRESPONDING SOCIETIES. 
1. To request the Council to represent to the Ministry of Agriculture and to the 
Board of Education the facilities offered by local scientific societies on matters bearing 
upon local geography, natural history, and historical antiquities, which should be 
made supplementary to the treatment of these subjects in the curriculum of schools, 
and to inquire in what way this information may be more generally and effectively 
utilised. 
2. To call the attention of the County Council of Devon and of the local district 
councils to recent spoliation of ancient monuments on Dartmoor by roadmenders, 
and to ask for effective protection of these monuments. (Approved for immediate 
action.) 
3. To recommend that the British Association should take steps, through the 
Corresponding Societies Committee, to secure the establishment and facilitate the 
extension of regional researches, especially in the districts which it visits. 
4. To ask the Council of the Association and the Corresponding Societies to inquire 
into the threatened extermination of many of the rarer British species of plants and 
animals and to take steps to ensure their protection. 
5. That all Corresponding Societies be recommended to present one copy of all 
papers published to such bodies as prepare annually or otherwise bibliographies of 
particular subjects, for example, to the Geological Society in the case of geological 
literature. (Approved for immediate action.) 
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