CONCLUDING GENERAL MEETING— RESOLUTIONS. Iv 



Provost, for the City's generous hospitality on the occasion of the Meeting 

 of the Association in 1928. The Association acknowledges the unremitting 

 labour of Sir John Samuel and his able staff, to whose admirable organisa- 

 tion the success of the meeting is so largely due ; and the especial gratitude 

 of the Association is accorded to Sir John and his colleague Prof. Magnus 

 Maclean for having again devoted their time to the work of local organisa- 

 tion as they did in 1901. 



The British Association most gratefully acknowledges through the 

 Principal the generous co-operation and hospitality of the University of 

 Glasgow, on the occasion of the Meeting in 1928. The Association 

 especially appreciates the comfort and smooth working of the Meeting 

 which have resulted from having the magnificent buildings and resources 

 of the University placed unreservedly at its disposal. 



The British Association deeply appreciates the facilities afforded to 

 its members to acquaint themselves with the manifold economic, industrial 

 and other scientific interests of the city and vicinity of Glasgow, by the 

 Royal Technical College, the Clyde Trust, and other public institutions, 

 manufacturers and civic authorities, and thanks all these for their kindly 

 hospitality. 



RESOLUTIONS & RECOMMENDATIONS. 



The following resolutions and recommendations were referred to the 

 Council by the General Committee at Glasgow for consideration and, if 

 desirable, for action : — 



From Section E. 



To recommend to Council that the British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science call the attention of the Governments and Departments concerned to the 

 urgent importance of securing as soon as possible the cohesion of surveys in the East 

 African Dependencies, with a view to the early completion of the thirtieth meridian 

 arc, which offers the best means of providing the essential unified framework iipon 

 which the whole of the surveys of East Africa — geodetic, topographical and geological- — 

 may be based without waste of effort. 



From Section E. 



To recommend to Council that the British Association represent to His Majesty's 

 Government the desirability of completing as soon as possible the uniform map of 

 Africa, published by the Geographical Section (General Staff), on the scale of 

 1 : 2,000,000, a maj) which forms the only satisfactory base for various distributional 

 studies in Africa ; and further, that on each sheet of the map to be issued in the 

 future a diagram be inserted to indicate the I'elative reliability of different areas of 

 the map. 



From Section E. 



To call the attention of His Majesty's Government to the need for supplementing 

 the periodical revision of Ordnance Survey maps by emergency revisions of areas 

 transformed by industrial or urban development, and to suggest that by making 

 available, at the cost of reproduction, the data collected by the Ordnance Survey, 

 both economy and efficiency would result in the planning and development of such 

 areas. 



From Section H. 



That the Council be asked to take cognisance of the present high cott of foreign 

 scientific publications with a view to ascertaining whether, or by what means, some 

 reduction in cost may be secured. 



