REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1937-38 xvii 



Resolutions and Recommendations. 



Resolutions and recommendations, referred by the General Committee 

 to the Council for consideration, and, if desirable, for action, were dealt 

 with as follows. The resolutions will be found in the Report for 1937, 

 p. xlviii. 



{a) On a resolution from Section A (Mathematical and Physical 

 Sciences), the Council laid before the Corporation of the City of 

 Nottingham a report on the bad condition of the grave of George 

 Green in Sneinton churchyard in that city, and were gratified to learn 

 that the Corporation had undertaken to restore the grave. 



{b) On a resolution from Section D (Zoology), the Council com- 

 municated to the Trustees of the British Museum an expression of 

 their hope that the custody of the late Lord Rothschild's museum at 

 Tring would be undertaken by the Trustees. 



(c) The Council were informed by the Ministry of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries (i) that the resumption of the publication of one-inch Ordnance 

 Survey maps in the ' relief ' style will be considered when the publica- 

 tion of the present Fifth Edition in the ordinary style is nearing com- 

 pletion ; (ii) that with regard to maps showing physical features only 

 the Minister is prepared to arrange for an edition, showing water and 

 contours only, when the ordinary edition of each forthcoming sheet 

 is printed. (Resolution of Section E, Geography.) 



{d) The General Secretaries were authorised to consult the Secretary 

 of the Institution of Civil Engineers on the subject of a resolution 

 from Section G (Engineering) on the desirability of improving the 

 co-ordination of arrangements for publishing and indexing new 

 engineering knowledge and the results of engineering research. 



{e) The Council received unofficial information from a representative 

 of the India Office to the effect that, while it was admitted that a 

 knowledge of Anthropology would be of advantage to civil servants, 

 the present syllabus, as reviewed recently by an authoritative committee 

 set up by the Secretary of State, would not allow of the introduction of 

 an additional compulsory subject. The Council therefore decided 

 not to transmit the resolution of Section H (Anthropology) officially 

 to the India Office. 



(/) In reply to the resolution of Section L (Educational Science) on 

 adult education, the officers of the Board of Education have under- 

 taken to consider the resolution when reports are presented of a survey, 

 at present in operation, of existing provisions for adult education in 

 England and Wales. 



{g) A resolution for the Conference of Delegates of Corresponding 

 Societies, supported by Section D (Zoology), on the necessity for an 

 inquiry into methods of dealing with rodents and other wild mammals 

 which affect agriculture, was communicated to the Ministry of Agri- 

 culture and Fisheries and to the Department of Agriculture for Scotland. 

 Both departments replied to the effect that experiments on the control 

 of rabbits were already in progress. 



