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collection several of our Belfast members had rendered good 

 aid, and I noticed with pleasure this year some admirable 

 enlargements from negatives made by one of our lady members. 

 Mr. WiUiam Gray, who is a member of this Committee, will, I 

 am sure, be glad to give any needed information and to take 

 charge of and forward any photographs entrusted to him. 



The Erratic Blocks Committee, although in existence for 21 

 years, still finds many gaps in the information supplied to 

 them, and complaint is made that from many districts no 

 reports whatever have been received. I fear we cannot claim 

 to have done much to aid this inquiry, and yet a good field for 

 observation and report was open before us. I hope that those 

 of our members (and there are several) who have the requisite 

 opportunity and skill will not lose sight of this work in the 

 near future. 



In section D the subjects of the protection of wild birds' eggs 

 and the disappearance of native plants received attention. 

 Among the novel suggestions made, specially in reference to 

 the first subject, was to utilise for this object the teaching of 

 the young in Board and other schools. As regarded the latter, 

 it was reported that the wild maiden-hair fern had been found 

 near Morecambe Bay. 



In connection with the question of Museums, the possibility 

 and desirability of having support given to local Museums 

 through the Technical Instruction Acts was suggested, and the 

 suggestion favourably received. The reading of papers on the 

 contents of these local Museums, in their separate departments, 

 was recommended by the chairman, with a view to their being 

 catalogued in the Association lists, and thus brought under 

 the notice of workers in the same subject elsewhere. This 

 would be specially desirable where, as is often the case, the 

 local Museum is rich in the materials peculiar to its neigh- 

 bourhood. 



In section F reference was made to the Ordnance Survey 

 maps and to the insertion therein of matters of archaeological 

 interest. As there is a new survey of this district at present in 



