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part in education. History gains a new meaning when it is found that the village 
itself had a history. 
Did time permit, I might also plead for the presentation of the older farming 
implements that are fast disappearing, as the local wheelwright is giving place to the 
centralised factory. The old four-wheeled wagon is practically dead, yet it is so 
toughly built that many fine specimens can still be found slumbering to decay in yards 
and implement sheds. It was a monument of craftsmanship and adaptation to 
special ends, and for once in a way the story of its building has been well and truly 
written down by George Street, the Farnham wheelwright. 
I will not elaborate my point any further, but once again plead with the local 
societies for the study of the antiquities of the land and of farming before it is too 
late. 
At the second meeting, on Tuesday, September 1, at 2 p.m., twenty-three delegates 
were present, representing twenty-eight societies. 
A discussion, initiated by the North Staffordshire Field Club and opened by their 
delegate, Dr. A. Scott, took place on the Effect of Broadcasting on the work and 
membership of Corresponding Societies. A representative of the British Broadcasting 
Company, Mr. L. W. Hayes, was present, and the discussion revealed both willingness 
and opportunity for co-operation between scientific societies and the company. 
The following resolutions were submitted by delegates, approved, and passed 
through the Committee of Recommendations to the General Committee of the 
Association :— 
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. 
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. 
The General Committee adopted the above resolutions, gave instructions for 
immediate action to be taken upon Nos. 2 and 5, and referred Nos. 1, 3 and 4 to the 
Council for consideration, and, if desirable, for action. 
A resolution requesting that the attention of H.M. Government be called to the 
damage resulting from the pollution of coastal waters with oil was not recommended 
by the Committee of Recommendations, on the ground that H.M. Government was 
already fully advised in this matter. 
The Conference supported the application of Section H (Anthropology) for the 
_ appointment of a Committee to investigate Kent’s Cavern, Torquay, which was duly 
appointed by the General Committee. 
The Conference considered the List of Papers bearing upon the Zoology, Botany 
and Prehistoric Archeology of the British Isles, which had been appended to the 
Report of the Conference for several years past; and resolved to make the usual 
application for a grant of £40 for the preparation of the list, but to ask the Corresponding 
Societies Committee to consider whether in its present form the list should be continued, 
and whether it would be sufficient to prepare a card index instead of printing the 
bibliography in the Association’s proceedings. f 
+ This matter was subsequently referred to the Council of the Association, which 
decided to discontinue the list after the present issue. A card index will not be 
prepared. 
