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fessor Favre mentions in his last Report, that the Town Councils 
of Bienne, Bondry, and Soleure, and the Cantonal Councils of 
Berne, Friburg, Aargau, and Neufchatel have aided the Committee 
in various ways ; and in a previous Report, he stated that the 
public purse had been freely opened to defray the expenses of the 
Committee. 
“ It would not be right to conclude without adding, that the 
Swiss Committee in their last Report have been pleased to take 
favourable notice of our own similar movement in Scotland, ob- 
serving that it has received not only the support of the Royal 
Society of Edinburgh, but likewise the -approval of the British 
Association for the Advancement of Science, and that the course 
of proceeding in Scotland is the same as that followed in Switzer- 
land. 
“ Whether our Committee will adopt the Swiss plan of acquiring 
a right to property in any of the Scottish boulders is a question 
for consideration. Already good has been done by the inquiries 
which the Committee has instituted, and by their explanation of 
the scientific value and historical interest of the boulders ; a dis- 
position to preserve them has been thereby created which did not 
previously exist. The press has also noticed with approval the 
appointment of our Boulder Committee, and has no doubt influenced 
public opinion.” 
The Society will have no difficulty in perceiving with what view 
I have given on the present occasion this detailed communication 
from Mr Milne Home to me. I trust that the public may be 
encouraged to aid in the preservation of our boulders. I hope 
that geologists will without delay aid the Committee in visiting 
and investigating them. And it may be a question whether our 
own Council may not consider that they could scarcely expend 
more profitably a portion of our moderate funds, than in sending 
out some young but competent geologist to some of these distant 
parts of the country indicated by Mr Milne Home, where there 
are remarkable boulders, which have not yet been described or 
investigated, or even scientifically visited. 
In the address delivered to the Society at the opening meeting 
in December last, I brought before you some observations on the 
