1905. ] Recent Publications of the Board. 



Subject to the general control of the Committee and to such 

 regulations as may be laid down by the Treasury, the Director 

 will be responsible for the administration of the office, and will 

 act as Chairman of the Committee. 



The following gentlemen have been appointed members of 

 the Committee :— Mr. W. N. Shaw, Sc.D., F.R.S., Director ; 

 Capt. Arthur M. Field, R.N., Hydrographer to the Navy ; Capt, 

 A.J. G. Chalmers, Professional Officer of the Marine Department, 

 Board of Trade ; Mr. W. Somerville, Sc.D., Assistant Secretary 

 of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries ; Professor G. H. 

 Darwin, F.R.S., University of Cambridge ; Professor Arthur 

 Schuster, F.R.S., University of Manchester; and Mr. G. L. 

 Barstow, of the Treasury. 



The Annual Report for the year 1904 of the Proceedings of 



the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries under the several Acts 



administered in the Land Division of the 



Recent Department has been published. This Re- 

 Publications of t r p, T) . , jn 



the Board P \- 2453., Price 2§d.J combines the 



separate reports of proceedings required, 



under the provisions of various statutes, to be laid annually 



before Parliament by the Board, as the successors of the Tithe, 



Copyhold, and Inclosure Commissioners, whose powers and 



duties devolved in 1882 on the Land Commission, to whose 



functions the Board of Agriculture acceded on its formation 



in 1889. 



The nature of the varied business arising under the Acts 

 above referred to, and the methods of administration pursued 

 by the Department were fully explained in the Report for 1902,* 

 on which occasion a detailed description was supplied of the 

 statutory functions of the Board in relation to Tithe Rentcharge 

 and Corn Rents, Copyholds, Commons Inclosure and Regulation, 

 Exchange of Lands, Improvement of Land, Land Drainage, 

 Sale of Glebe Lands, Universities and College Estates, Agri- 

 cultural Holdings, Light Railways, and sundry other matters 



Cd. 1 5 19. Price SJ. 



