Abstract
PROF. P. G. H. BOSWELL'S presidential address to the Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies deals with the preservation of sites of scientific interest in relation to town and country planning. One of the most enlightened enactments placed upon the Statute Book for a long time is the Town and Country Planning Act of 1932, wherein it is laid down that a local authority or joint committee must obtain the approval of the Ministry of Health before it can implement any resolution relating to a scheme of planning. Among the objects of such a scheme, as cited in Section 1 of the Act, arc “preserving existing buildings or other objects of architectural, historic and artistic interest, and places of natural interest or beauty, and generally of protecting existing amenities whether in urban or rural portions of the area”.
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