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(b) Following upon recommendations from Sections E (Geography) 
and M (Agriculture), a deputation waited upon the Ministry of Agri- 
culture, and was assured that as far as possible the publication of 
Agricultural Statistics, Parts 1 and 2, should be expedited, and the needs 
of students in agricultural geography should be met. 
(c) The attention of the Home Office and the Ministry of Transport 
was called to the resolution from Section G (Engineering) concerning 
the desirability of action against noises caused by motor vehicles. 
(d) The Council conveyed to the Museums Association their approval 
of the system of interchange of specimens in museums, and expressed 
the hope that the system would be extended. (Resolution of Section 
H, Anthropology.) 
(ec) A recommendation that the final report of the Colour Vision 
Committee should be communicated to the Ministry of Transport, 
in so far as it referred to the shape of traffic lights, was adopted: ‘The 
report was communicated accordingly, and certain information was 
supplied to the Ministry at its request. 
The Council forwarded the following resolution to H.M. Secretary of 
State for the Colonies :— 
The Council of the British Association have noted with great interest 
the highly important archeological and geological discoveries made in the 
Kendu-Homa area of Kenya Colony, and the promise they give that even 
more valuable results will be obtained there in the future. The Council 
therefore express the strong hope that it may be possible to reserve the 
superficial deposits of this area (which at a minimum may be taken as a 
strip two miles in width from the shore, from Kendu Point to Homa 
Point, on Lake Victoria, a distance of 12 miles) for excavation only by 
qualified scientific investigators. 
Down House. 
IV.—The following report for the year 1932-33 has been received from 
the Down House Committee :— 
The number of visitors to Down House during the year ending June 6, 
1933, has been 7,022, compared with 7,638 in 1931-32, and 5,210 in 1930- 
31. The decrease during the present as compared with last year is 
accounted for by the fact that last year included the Association’s centenary 
week, when a large number of members visited the house. 
Among recent acquisitions reference should be made to the barometer 
used by Darwin on the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, which has been placed 
at Down House by the Royal Society on loan. It has been restored to 
working order by Messrs. Negretti & Zambra, with the kind advice of the 
Meteorological Office. 
Darwin’s dining-room table has been added to the collection by purchase. 
The Old Study was copied as nearly as possible, and with great success, 
as one of the rooms of scientific men exhibited at the Ideal Home Exhibition 
this year. : 
The Committee have acknowledged with deep gratitude a gift of {150 
a year for five years from the Pilgrim Trust to the funds of the Association 
in respect of its trusteeship under Sir Buckston Browne’s gift of Down 
House. The preliminary steps which led to the making of this gift were 
