Mr. Major (Somerset) suggested that landlords should put a clause 

 in their leases insuring the preservation of such antiquities. 



Mr. P. H. Johnston thought the suggestion to interest school- 

 masters most valuable, and the Rev. F. W. Weaver wished to 

 include schoolmistresses. 



Mr. Edward Owen introduced himself as delegate for the Royal 

 Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, and Secretary of the Royal 

 Commission on the Ancient Monuments of Wales. He stated that 

 the Commission had made a special point of asking for information 

 from the schoolmasters, and in Montgomery had issued a circular and 

 schedule, with a list of all known monuments in each parish, to the 

 schools as well as to the clergy. Information received in consequence 

 had been of great value. He complained of the callousness of local 

 authorities and of Government authorities. 



The Office of Woods and Forests had given to a quarry company 

 a lease of the important stone fortress of Pen Maen Mawr, and this 

 was now doomed. 



Mr. R. Garraway Rice, F.S.A. (Sussex), said that he had found 

 schoolmasters and mistresses of great assistance in the collection of 

 prehistoric implements, and boys had taken up eagerly the work of 

 finding such ; it was, however, only a few in his county who could be 

 interested. 



The Rev. F. G. Walker (Cambridge) wished to say a good word 

 for the parsons who were continually appealing for guidance and help ; 

 he had himself made much use of schoolmasters, who were often 

 agents for local papers. Two years ago he had excavated a tumulus 

 two miles firono Cambridge, and in consequence of a notice in the 

 paper, the site was visited on a Sunday after by 2,000 people who 

 drank the publics dry, and caused him to receive a letter of thanks 

 from the brewers. School museums created an interest, and he had 

 found boys quite useful in excavating, and in keeping an eye on road 

 material. 



Mr. Nevill pointed out that at the first Congress he advocated the 

 provision by the societies of 6 inch Ordnance maps, on which every- 

 thing of interest should be noted. His Surrey Society had purchased 

 a set, and found them most useful, but he was afraid not much had 

 been done in the way of record. Subsequently the Society ot 

 Antiquaries had drawn up a scheme for archaeological maps of 

 counties on which everything known could be recorded by agreed 

 symbols indicating character and date. Several maps of counties had 

 been issued, but it appeared impossible to get the work done generally. 

 The scheme of marks should certainly be adopted by anyone who was 

 working on maps. 



The President said that the subject of stone and prehistoric 

 monuments was one that specially interested him. When Lord 

 Avebury's Bill was passed, strong objection was raised to interference 



