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Birds' Committee has shown practical 
interest in this matter by paying for a 
watcher on the Spurn peninsula during 
the whole of the breeding season. In 
the same way, birds on the Flam- 
borough headland and on the western 
fells are protected. The Glacial Com- 
mittee also has taken steps to pre- 
serve the larger and more important 
ice-carried boulders, by arranging for 
their removal to public parks or other 
suitable sites, whenever it was impos- 
sible to preserve them in situ. The 
Geological Photographs' Committee 
record, by means of photographs, many 
interesting geological sections as they 
become exposed ; and this is often the 
only practicable method of preserving 
them, as they are often destroyed 
shortly after exposure, sometimes by 
quarry-owners and sometimes by the 
action of the sea. In addition, the 
Union, by the publication of its various 
