RESOLUTIONS & RECOMMENDATIONS. 



The following resolutions and recommendations were referred, unless 

 otherwise stated, to the Council by the General Committee at the Cam- 

 bridge Meeting for consideration and, if desirable, for action : 



From Section A {Mathematical and Physical Sciences). 

 That the Committee of Section A request the Council to communicate 

 to the University authorities their satisfaction on learning that the establish- 

 ment of a Museum of Historic Scientific Instruments is contemplated, and 

 hopes that the scheme will be brought to fruition. 



From Section D {Zoology). 

 That it is in the highest interest of the history of Science that the objects 

 of historic and scientific importance now being shown in the exhibition 

 arranged under the auspices of the Cambridge Philosophical Society should 

 be kept together so far as possible to form the nucleus of a permanent 

 University Museum illustrating the history of Science in Cambridge. 



The substance of the two preceding resolutions was ordered to be com- 

 municated to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge as from 

 the Association. 



From Section H {Anthropology). 



That the Association views with appreciation the recognition by the 

 Commonwealth Government of Australia of the value of the application of 

 scientific anthropological methods to the solution of the problems associated 

 with the aborigines, and the renewed efforts directed to the preservation of 

 the remaining native tribes. 



Inasmuch as it is now generally recognised that a thorough knowledge 

 of the material and spiritual life of a people is the best approach for solving 

 the problems connected with the administration of native affairs and in 

 view of the rapid decline of the Australian aborigines and the great value to 

 Science, both now and in centuries to come, of the information about their 

 languages and cultures that might still be collected by scientific field-work 

 during the next fifteen or twenty years, it is urgently necessary that the 

 research work financed for ten years by the Rockefeller Foundation and 

 subsequently by the Commonwealth Government should be continued. 



It is respectfully suggested to the Commonwealth Government that the 

 best method of safeguarding the remaining tribal natives, in particular 

 those of Arnhem Land, who are still in possession of their own culture, 

 would be to segregate them effectively from all alien influences pending 

 the establishment of a settled uniform policy for the treatment of the whole 

 of the natives of Australia. 



From Section H {Anthropology). 



The Committee of Section H desire to maintain on record their resolution 

 adopted last year to the effect that in view of the importance of anthropology 

 as a means of promoting concord and understanding between men of 

 different traditions, the British Association earnestly recommends to the 

 Secretary of State for India that anthropology should be made a com- 

 pulsory subject of study in the training of all probationers appointed to. 

 proceed to India and Burma. 



The Committee understand that it has been found inexpedient to give 

 effect to this resolution during the past year, but they trust that the Council 

 will ask the Government of India to re-consider the matter sympathetically 

 whenever opportunity may arise. ^ ariT 



