KEPOKT OF THE DELEGATE FKOM THE EAST OP SCOTLAND 

 UNION OF NAT REALISTS' SOCIETIES TO THE MEETING 

 AT BATH OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION, 



(In September, 1888). 



By R. BROWN. 



In accordance with the honour done me by the Council of the 

 Union at the annual meeting at Largo on 2nd August last, I 

 attended the meeting of the British Association at Bath, and beg 

 to report as follows. 



The delegates from the Corresponding Societies assembled, to 

 the number of 35, of whom 26 represented English Societies, 6 

 Scotch, 2 Irish, and 1 Manx. Two meetings were held as usual. 



Almost the only subject discussed at the first meeting was the 

 " Preservation of Ancient Monuments." As the Council 

 is no doubt aware, an Act of Parliament for this end was passed 

 about two years ago ; and General Pitt-Rivers was appointed to 

 superintend the working of the Act for five years. He stated at 

 the meeting that, so far as his experience went, the owners of 

 such monuments take good care of them. Sir John Lubbock and 

 Professor Boyd-Dawkins spoke of the incompleteness of the Act, 

 and of the opposition that it met with in passing through the 

 House of Commons, and mentioned that the preservation of many 

 of the relics was due to the personal exertions of General Pitt- 

 Rivers. The delegate from the Isle of Man regretted that the 

 Act does not apply to that island. It was suggested that the 

 sites of all ancient monuments and prehistoric remains should be 

 inserted in future issues of the one-inch Ordnance maps, and that 

 certain signs already in use in this and also in other countries 

 should alone be employed to indicate the nature of the remains. 

 A map was exhibited, showing the position of all the monuments 

 known to exist in 1887. It was stated that the Government has 



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