570 SECTIONAL TRANSACTIONS .—L. 
RESEARCH WORK BY TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS :— 
Dr. A. H. SmitH.—Field-names (11.10). 
Dr. L. DupLtey Stamp.—Some types of local survey (11.30). 
This paper describes an attempt to apply a simplified form of the regional 
survey method on a nation-wide basis. Starting with the assumption that 
a fundamental aim of juvenile education is to provide an adequate prepara- 
tion for adult life, an intensive study of the home region and of the local 
environment is used as a starting point for a training in citizenship by 
awakening an appreciation of the significance and relative importance of the 
facts of local geography, history, and economics. Several bodies exist to 
encourage regional survey as an educational method and amongst them was 
the Regional Survey Committee of the Geographical Association. The 
author, on his resignation from the Indian Educational Service in 1926, 
became Secretary of this Committee and it was soon apparent that only the 
larger or better-equipped schools could, except with specially enthusiastic 
leadership, organise a complete local survey. A search was made for a 
simplified form which could be undertaken by the smallest rural schools— 
even single-teacher schools—but which would carry the advantage of the 
method and would, at the same time, yield results of permanent value. By 
a magnificent pioneer effort, Mr. J. L. Holland, Director of Education for 
Northamptonshire, assisted by Dr. E. E. Field, showed how the rural schools 
of a county could effectively undertake a survey of the uses of land, each 
school studying its own parish. With this example before them, the Land 
Utilisation Survey of Britain was formed in October 1930, with the help 
of a grant from the Rockefeller Fund of the London School of Economics. 
The Survey was careful to remain an independent body and all work has 
been carried out on a voluntary basis, though the approval of the Board of 
Education, Scottish Education Department, County Councils Association, 
and many other bodies was first obtained. The Survey was organised ona 
county basis, England, mainly in 1931 ; Wales and Scotland mainly in 1932. In 
seventy of the ninety-three administrative counties the Director of Education 
has been the county organiser. It is estimated that 10,000 schools and 
200,000 children have taken part in the study of the 22,000 sheets of the 6-in. 
ordnance map which are involved. The methods followed are described ; 
independent opinions and estimates of the value of the work are given. A 
number of the maps on the scale of 1 inch to 1 mile, now being issued by 
the Ordnance Survey as a result of the Survey, are mentioned. The results 
of the Land Utilisation Survey further illustrate in a remarkable way the 
controlling influence on the progress of educational experiments exercised 
by the County Education Committees. 
Mr. A. S. McWiti1am.—A research in agriculture at Lady Manners 
School, Bakewell (11.50). 
This paper is an account of some of the field experiments carried out by 
the boys and girls in connection with the biology course. The experiments 
are arranged in collaboration with the Rothamsted Experimental Station. 
The experiments on meadow hay consist of, first, an eight plot manurial 
test which gives significant results for the complete manure, all the other 
treatments containing nitrogen and for potash in the presence of nitrogen. 
The second one demonstrates the importance of the degree of solubility of 
phosphatic fertilisers ; and the third is a two years’ trial to compare the 
action and manurial residues of dung and complete artificials. 
