CONGRESS 



OK 



Hrcb^oloGical Societies 



IN Union with thI': 



^ocictg of ^ntiquarifs of London. 



WEDNESDAY, JULY 5th, 1911. 



The Twenty-second Congress of Archaeological Societies in union 

 with the Society of Antiquaries of London was held on July 5th, 

 igii, at Burlington House, under the presidency of C. H. Read, 

 Esq., LL.D., President of the Society of Antiquaries. 



The Congress was attended by delegates from the Society of 

 Antiquaries, the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, the 

 Cambrian Archaeological Association, the Society of Genealogists of 

 London, Folk-lore and Huguenot Societies, the Viking Club, the 

 Berkshire, (notice of the Congress accidentally failed to reach 

 delegates from the Bucks and another Society), Bristol and 

 Gloucestershire, Cambridge, Essex, Hampshire, Lancashire and 

 Cheshire, Leicestershire, Newcastle, Somesetshire, Suffolk, Surrey, 

 and Sussex Societies and Members of the Council and of the 

 i;arth works Commitlee. 



The adoption of the report was moved by the President and 

 seconded by Sir Edward Brabrook. On the motion of Mr. Nevill, 

 the Congress again passed a resolution concerning the supply 

 n\ Public Record Ofhce publications to certain libraries, and 

 lor a second time a resolution asking the Go\ernment to direct that 

 arrangements shall be made by the authorities at Somerset House 

 ,in order that access for literary study may be given to all 

 documents, ecclesiastical as well as probate records now in their 

 I harge, in the same way as at the Public Record Office. 



Mr. Nevill stated that there had been received merely an 

 , acknowledgment of the resolution moved on the previous occasion 

 land they now should respectfully ask the Government to attend to 

 their representations. He proposed that copies of the resolution, 

 together with a covering letter, should again be sent to the Prime 

 iMinister and also a copy of the correspondence to the Times and 

 to The Atlieihcioii. The proposition was carried unanimously. 



Mr. Minet explained what had been done regarding the Subject 



i.aiur luchtx. They had now tlic whole of the material which 



jMessrs. Constable had prepared and Dr. William ^Lartin had been 



'-'ood enough to undertake to draw up the Index. The (piestion of 



