The Scottish Naturalist. 



scattered, should be indicated, (by colours if over a sufficiently 

 wide extent, or by conventional signs, if much restricted, occur- 

 ring singly), under the headings, i. Palaeolithic Stone Age; 

 2. Neolithic Stone Age ; 3. Bronze Age ; 4. Iron Age. 



It is recommended not that all flint implements be recorded, 

 but that records be made of hoards of implements, of localities 

 where manufactories of flint weapons have been found, and 

 summarised lists of the nature of the objects where worked flints 

 are abundantly met with. 



In the Conference of the Delegates in Newcastle, Mr. William 

 Gray reported that the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club had begun 

 work, in accordance with the above recommendations, in Antrim 

 and Down, taking the one-inch Ordnance-maps as a basis. 

 It had been found more simple in practice to indicate the posi- 

 tion of any object, not by giving its lat. and long., or its distance 

 from any town, but by stating the number of the Ordnance map, 

 and the distance from the north (top) and west (left margin) of 

 that sheet. Mr. Gray had found the conventional symbols re- 

 commended rather indistinct in actual work, and not quite full 

 enough to include certain classes of remains, such as the castles 

 and stone forts that are met with in Ireland. 



In Scotland there is much tu be done in the lines recommended 

 by the Committee; and the Societies may very well undertake the 

 careful carrying out of this work, which may be held to fall quite 

 within the province of even the strictly Natural History Societies. 



A subject so closely akin to this as to call for notice here was 

 mentioned at the Conference by Dr. Garson, who brought under 

 the notice of the Delegates that the Anthropological Society had 

 had under consideration the fact that a large number of barrows 

 and other antiquarian remains were year by year destroyed, not 

 willingly, but by injudicious exploration. To obviate this, the 

 Society appointed a Committee to draw up a series of directions 

 for the use of those desirous to explore barrows or other remains, 

 to ensure, if possible, that they should proceed systematically, and 

 in such a way as to lose nothing of any value. The Committee 

 is anxious to have communications sent to it, (addressed to the 

 Secretary of the Anthropological Institute, 3 Hanover Square, 

 London), and to be made acquainted with all such work, not in 

 any way to interfere with or take the credit of any work, but to 

 assist explorers with information as to what to observe. 



