INLAND WATER SURVEY 329 
As a result of this resolution, on February 28, Sir Percy Douglas wrote 
to Prof. W. W. Watts, the President of the British Association, enclosing 
Memorandum No. 2 (see p. 326). 
The following letter and enclosure were received from the Secretary of 
the British Association : 
To Capt. W. N. McCtean, Burlington House, 
Parliament Mansions, London, W. 1. 
Victoria Street, S.W.1. 4th March, 1935. 
Dear McCLean,—I am directed by the President to thank the Chairman of 
the Inland Water Survey Committee for his communication of February 28th, 
and a copy of the letter which has been addressed to the Ministry of Health, 
enclosed herewith, will show him and your Committee that the Council 
has taken the action desired. A copy of this letter has also been sent to 
the Institution of Civil Engineers. 
Yours very truly, 
(Sed.) O. J. R. Howartnu, 
Secretary. 
To THE PRIVATE SECRETARY, Burlington House, 
THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH, London, W.t. 
Whitehall, S.W. 1. 4th March, 1935. 
Str,—(1) I am directed by the Council of the British Association to 
request that there may be conveyed to the Minister a sincere expression of 
the Council’s gratification that the Minister has caused to be appointed a 
Committee to deal with the question of an Inland Water Survey, a course 
which the British Association, in co-operation with the Institution of Civil 
Engineers, had the honour to urge upon H.M. Government through a 
deputation which the Minister was good enough to receive. 
(2) As you are aware, the British Association has a Committee on this 
subject, which has presented two reports, and has now forwarded a brief 
memorandum of which I have the honour to enclose a copy by direction of 
the Council. 
(3) I am further directed to bring to your notice a resolution which was 
put forward at the last annual meeting of the Association by the Section of 
Geology, and has been adopted by the Council, recommending ‘ 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.’ 
I am, Sir, 
Your Obedient Servant, 
(Sgd.) O. J. R. Howarru, 
Secretary. 
It was further resolved at the meeting of the Main Committee on 
February 22: 
‘That a small Sub-Committee be appointed consisting of the Chairman 
and one representative from each British Association Section, to draw up a 
report for consideration by the Committee, framed in such a way as to leave 
it open for each representative to take the same viewpoint to his sectional 
Committee and to get a new Committee appointed with new terms of 
reference’ ; 
