168 NOTES ON THE CONFERENCE OF DELEGATES OF THE
On the maintenance of local museums, the Secretary read a letter
from Mr. W. Cole, Hon. Sec. Essex Field Club. Mr. Cole thought
that if an annual sum for the maintenance of local museums could
be obtained from the Technical Educational Grants in each county
there would be no great difficulty in obtaining substantial sums
towards buildings and fittings. The fear that a museum might not
be permanent often kept back subscriptions. Donations, both of
money and of specimens, would rapidly come in when once the
public felt that the museum would be permanent; and in no way
could a portion of the Technical Educational Grant be better
expended than in placing on a satisfactory footing the local museum
of the county.
Mr. Symons thought the idea of getting a grant from the source
suggested a very good one.
It is certainly obvious that no Field Club or Clubs can be relied
upon for the permanent maintenance of a museum. This subject
will be more fully discussed at the Oxford meeting of the British
Association next year.
T. V. HOLMES,
Hon. Secretary Corresponding Societies Committee;
Delegate, Essex Field Club.
I add a list of those British Association Committees of whose
existence the Corresponding Societies should be more especially
aware. As all the members of the various Committees are members
of the British Association, their addresses may always be obtained
by consulting the list of members of that body :—
Corresponding Societies Committee. Chairman—Professor R. Meldola.
Secretary—Mr. T. V. Holmes. Mr. Francis Galton, Sir Douglas Galton, Sir
Rawson Rawson, Mr. G. J. Symons, Dr. J. G. Garson, Sir John Evans, Mr. J.
Hopkinson, Professor T. G. Bonney, Mr. W. Whitaker, Mr. W. Topley, Mr. E.
B. Poulton, Mr. Cuthbert Peek, and Rev. Canon II. B. Tristram.
To organise an Ethnographical Survey of the United Kingdom.
Chairman—Mr. E. W. Brabrook. Secretary—Mr. G. W. Bloxam. Mr. Francis
Galton, Dr. J. G. Garson, Professor A. C. Haddon, Dr. Joseph Anderson, Mr. J.
Romilly Allen, Dr. J. Beddoe, Professor D. J. Cunningham, Professor W. Boyd
Dawkins, Mr. Arthur Evans, Mr. E. Sidney Hartland, Sir H. Howorth, Professor
R. Meldola, General Pitt-Rivers, and Mr. E. G. Ravenstein.
Ascertaining and recording the Localities in the British Islands in
which evidence of the existence of Prehistoric Inhabitants of the
Country are found. Chairman—Sir John Lubbock. Secretary—Mr. J. W
Davis. Sir John Evans, Professor Boyd Dawkins, Dr. R. Munro, Mr. Pengelly,
Dr. Hicks, and Professor R. Meldola.
To consider proposals for the Legislative Protection of Wild Birds'