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intended to confine their Report this year entirely to Wales and the 
adjoining counties in the West of England. In view of the meeting 
being at Edinburgh next year, it was likely that the Perthshire lists 
would be taken for the next Report. 
Destruction of Wild Birds’ Eggs.—Dr. Vachell said that 
the Cardiff Naturalists’ Society, as some of the delegates might have 
heard, had taken up a case in 1890 with respect to the destruction 
of birds and eggs on the island of Grassholme, in the Bristol 
Channel. A Bill had been introduced into Parliament last year by 
Mr. Pease, but this had unfortunately not been proceeded with. It 
appeared to him, and to the members of the Cardiff Society, that the 
protection, not only of the birds, but also of the eggs during the 
breeding season, was a very important matter, and he should be very 
glad if the delegates would give some practical aid with the object 
of furthering the Bil 
fr. Kermode said that it might interest the meeting to know 
that in the Isle of Man they did protect the eggs as well as the birds, 
and he hoped that they would succeed in getting similar protection 
in Great Britain. 
SECTION E. 
Teaching of Geography in Primary Schools.— 
Mr. Sowerbutts distributed among the delegates a report on 
geographical education which had been presented to the council 
the Manchester Geographical Society, and which contained 
evidence of very great improvement in the teaching of this subject. 
They had communicated with all the primary schools in Lancashire 
and Yorkshire, offering to conduct examinations and to give prizes. 
He added that if the delegates would refer to the report which he 
had circulated, and communicate with him, he should be in a 
Position to give a report at the next meeting.* 
Ordnance Maps.—The Chairman stated that it would be 
remembered that at the Leeds meeting last year a strong recom- 
mendation had been sent up to the Council as to the cost, the antiquity, 
and the difficulty of procuring copies, of the Ordnance Maps. 
Council had communicated with Mr. Chaplin, of the Board of 
Agriculture, and they had heard unofficially that material alterations 
would be made in the desired direction, so that these maps would 
be made very much more accessible than heretofore. He added 
that, so far as his ddesgbaern went, nineteen-twentieths of the ha 
” Communi ications to be Se . to vt Ee Sowerbutts, 44, Brown Street, 
nches 
Feb. 1892, 
