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other of the various sections of the Association. Each corresponding 
society has the ri^ht to nominate any one of its members, who is also 
a member of the Association, as its delegate to the annual meeting of 
the Association, who shall be for the time a member of the General 
Committee. 
A conference of the delegates at one or more meetings is held at 
each annual meeting of the Association, and the secretaries of sec- 
tions are instructed to transmit copies of any recommendation bear- 
ing upon matters in which the co-operation of the Corresponding 
Societies is desired, to the conference. The delegates are expected 
to make themselves familiar with the purport of the several recom- 
mendations as brought before them, in order that they may be able 
to bring them clearly and favourably before their respective societies. 
The conference may also discuss any propositions bearing on the pro- 
motion of more systematic observation and plans of operation, and 
greater uniformity in the mode of publishing results. 
The Committee in framing these regulations believe that much 
mutual help may be the result ; and whilst the Association hopes to 
derive benefit from the organized efforts of a large number of local 
workers, it is expected that the distinction accorded to societies 
through their connection with the Association will stimulate their 
members to greater and more useful exertions, and without in any 
way compromising their independence, will afford facility for the 
natural and healthy growth of a federation between remote societies 
which have no more direct bond of union than through the British 
Association. At the meeting of the British Association, held during 
the first week of September of this year at Birmingham, your Hon. 
Secretary attended as a Delegate from this society. At a meeting of 
th3 Delegates, on Monday, Sept. 2nd, various suggestions were made 
with the object of extending the usefulness of the local societies, and 
the representative of this society made a suggestion, which was after- 
wards adopted, viz. : that a record should be kept by local societies of 
all the evidence which from time to time may be discovered of the 
existence of pre-historic man. The localities and character of the 
objects should be noted, the former marked on a map kept for the 
purpose. The evidences to be included will comprise burial and 
