xlviil RESOLUTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 
RESOLUTIONS & RECOMMENDATIONS. 
The following resolutions and recommendations were referred to the 
Council by the General Committee at the Aberdeen Meeting for con- 
sideration, and, if desirable, for action :— 
From Sections A (Mathematical and Physical Sciences), C (Geology), 
E (Geography), and G (Engineering). 
That the British Association awaits with great interest the result of the 
careful consideration which His Majesty’s Government has promised to 
give to the question of an Inland Water Survey, and trusts that the Govern- 
ment will be favourable to the establishment of an organised survey of the 
water resources of the country on a scientific basis. 
From Section C (Geology). 
Section C recommends that the Government be urged to make compulsory 
the registration of wells, borings and excavations exceeding 100 feet in depth, 
under conditions similar to those for the notification and registration of 
shafts and boreholes for mineral, contained in the Mining Industry Act 
of 1926. ; 
From Section D (Zoology). 
The Committee of Section D draws the attention of the General Com- 
mittee to the fact that, although technical cinematograph films for the 
advancement of scientific knowledge may be imported duty free for exhibi- 
tion before scientific institutions, there is no provision for the free importa- 
tion of films for the teaching of science in universities and similar institutions ; 
and requests them to instruct Council to take steps to secure the duty-free 
importation, by recognised teaching bodies, of technical films to be used 
solely for the teaching of science, under conditions similar to those which 
apply to films for scientific institutions, provided such films are unobtainable 
in Great Britain. 
From Section E (Geography). 
The Committee of Section E invites the Council of the British Association 
to make a vigorous appeal to the Lord President of the Council and to the 
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries to take such measures as may ensure 
the provision of ample funds to carry out a far-sighted policy of large-scale 
maps revision in the general interest of the community. 
(The above resolution was supported by Sections C, D, F, G, H, J, K, 
L and M.) 
From Section E (Geography). 
The Committee of Section E desires Council to bring to the notice of the 
Board of Education and the Scottish Education Department the Atlas of 
Geographical Types of the British Isles (of which one sheet has been pub- 
lished), and in view of the support lent by the Ordnance Survey to urge the 
desirability of continuing its production. 
From Section K (Botany). 
This Section requests the Council of the Association to urge upon the 
Department of Education in England and the Scottish Education Depart- 
ment, the need for instruction in all schools on the importance of the 
preservation of amenities, and in particular Be 'Hiyprotection of trees, 
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