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THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION AT BATH. 



Rev. E. p. KNUBLEY, M.A., M.B.O.U., 



Rector of Staveley ; Delegate represc7iti)ig tJie Yorkshire Naturalists Ujiion on the 

 General Committee of the Association. 



To the Executive Council of the Yorkshire Naturalists Union. 



Gentlemen, — Your delegate has to report that the fifty-eighth 

 meeting of the British Association commenced at Bath, under the 

 presidency of Sir Frederick Bramwell, D.C.L., F.R.S., M.Inst.C.E., 

 on Wednesday, September 5 th, 1888. 



Your delegate was elected to serve on the Committees of the 

 Geological and Biological Sections. 



The Council nominated Dr. John Evans, Treasurer R.S., chair- 

 man ; Mr. W. Whittaker, F.R.S., vice-chairman ; and Prof. R. 

 Meldola, F.R.S., secretary to the Conference of Delegates of Corres- 

 ponding Societies for the Bath meeting. The Conference met on 

 Thursday, September 6th, and again on Tuesday, September nth. 

 Most of the delegates also attended a dinner on the former day, 

 for which arrangements had been made by the secretary. 



At the first meeting the Report of the Corresponding Societies 

 Committee was presented. It showed that thirty-two delegates were 

 Tiominated for the Manchester meeting. The following matters were 

 referred to as having engaged the attention of various committees 

 of the Association during the past year. 



Prehistoric Remains Committee. — This is a committee formed 

 for the purpose of ascertaining and recording the localities in the 

 British Islands in which evidences of the existence of prehistoric 

 inhabitants of the country are found. Mr. J. W. Davis, secretary, 

 stated that this committee had been carrying on its work during the 

 past year. Two reports had been obtained relating to the bronze 

 -implements of the East and West Ridings of Yorkshire, and several 

 others had been promised. 



Preservation of Stonehenge. — Ancient Monuments Act. 

 —It was pointed out that the local societies could do good service in 

 inducing the proprietors of prehistoric remains to communicate with 

 General Pitt -Rivers, the Inspector of Ancient Monuments, with 

 the object of placing these remains under Government protection. 

 Sir John Lubbock explained what Parliament had done in the 

 matter, and laid his own views before the committee. 



Provincial Museums Committee. — Mr. F. T. Mott stated that 

 this committee had been engaged during the past year in collect- 

 Naturalist, 



