Including Ladies. § Fellows of the American Association were admitted as Hon. Members for this Meeting

[Continued on p. xiii.

1 Including 848 Members of the South African Association.

2 Including 137 Members of the American Association.

3 Special arrangements were made for Members and Associates joining locally in Australia, see Report, 1914, p. 686. The numbers include 80 Members who joined in order to attend the Meeting of L'Association Française at Le Havre.

• Including Students' Tickets, 10s.

Including Exhibitioners granted tickets without charge.

• Including grants from the Caird Fund in this and subsequent years.

7 Including Foreign Guests, Exhibitioners, and others.

The Bournemouth Fund for Research, initiated by Sir C. Parsons, enabled grants on account of scientific purposes to be maintained.

Including grants from the Caird Gift for research in radioactivity in this and subsequent years.

10 Subscriptions paid in Canada were $5 for Meeting only and others pro rata; there was some gain on exchange.

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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1923-24.

I. Professor Horace Lamb, F.R.S., has been unanimously nominated by the Council to fill the office of President of the Association for the year 1925-26 (Southampton Meeting).

II. The Council have passed resolutions of regret at the death of Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S. (Secretary, 1881-85; President, 1910), Sir Edmund Walker, Chancellor of the University of Toronto and Vice-President elect of the Association for the Toronto Meeting, and Sir William Herdman, C.B.E., F.R.S. (General Secretary, 1903-19; President, 1920).

III. The General Officers, a Committee of the Council, and the Council themselves, have been fully occupied with arrangements for the Toronto Meeting. They acknowledge gratefully the unsparing labours of the executive in Toronto, with which the Secretary of the Association was enabled to acquaint himself during a visit, on the invitation of the executive, to Toronto in January. They have also to acknowledge the generosity of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in undertaking to distribute circulars relating to the Meeting to all its members.

IV. Representatives of the Association have been appointed as follows:
Physical Society of France,
Anniversary

Fiftieth

Professor F. Lindemann.

Professor J. P. MacMurrich.
Sir Ernest Rutherford.

Royal Colonial Institute, Committee dealing
with conference on questions of imperial
education at the British Empire Exhibition Professor T. P. Nunn.
American Association for the Advancement
of Science, Cincinnati Meeting
Kelvin Centenary, Committee of Honour
British Academy, Committee on reparation
of losses to Imperial University Library,
Tokyo, through earthquakef
Joseph Leidy Commemorative Meeting,
Philadelphia
International
Toronto

Mathematical Congress,

Franklin Institute, Centenary Celebration

Association Française pour l'Avancement des Sciences, Liége Meeting.

Professor J. L. Myres.

Professor W. H. Welch.

Sir William Ashley, Sir William
Bragg, Professor G. W. 0.
Howe, Major P. A. MacMahon.
Sir Ernest Rutherford and Hon.
Sir Charles Parsons.
Dr. J. G. Garson.

Sir R. A. Gregory, who was appointed to represent the Association on the Cinematograph Committee of the Board of Education, reports that the Committee has been informed of the importance attached to its work by the President of the Board, who is publishing its results as part of the Imperial Education Conference. |

† A set of the Association Reports, so far as available, has been presented to the Library.

V. Resolutions referred by the General Committee at the Liverpool Meeting to the Council for consideration, and, if desirable, for action, were dealt with as follows:

(a) Following upon resolutions received from all Sections excepting Section F, and from the Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies, regarding the provision of more adequate accommodation for the Science Museum, South Kensington, the Council addressed the following on the subject: The First Lord of the Treasury, the Lord President of the Council, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Secretary of State for War, the Minister for Air, the President of the Board of Education, the First Commissioner of Works, the Minister of Health, the President of the Board of Trade, the Secretary for Mines, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Office of Works and Transport (Board of Trade), the Postmaster-General, the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries.

(b) Following upon resolutions from several Sections and the Conference of Delegates, dealing with the need for more adequate protection of sites of scientific and historical interest, the Council addressed the appropriate Government Departments, and summoned a conference at which H.M. Office of Works and the following societies and institutions were represented: The Royal Anthropological Institute, the Congress of Archæological Societies, the Architectural Association, the Folklore Society, the Royal Geographical Society, the Geological Society, the Geologists' Association, the Linnean Society, the National Trust, the British Ornithologists' Union, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, and the Zoological Society. The chair was taken by the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres. No resolution was formulated, but the discussion in general revealed cordial agreement with the suggestion contained in the letter summoning the conference, that the sole effective remedy appears to be that learned societies not immediately concerned in a particular problem of conservation should take concerted steps to promote legislation wider in scope and more strictly worded than the Ancient Monuments Act now in force for the protection of such sites.

(c) Following upon resolutions from several Sections and the Conference of Delegates, a letter dealing with the suspension of the sale of quarter-sheets of the 6-in. Ordnance Map was addressed to the DirectorGeneral of the Ordnance Survey, who courteously informed the Council of the reasons which had rendered this step necessary.

(d) The Council gave effect to resolutions dealing with the publication of the reports of Committees on Geographical Teaching and on Complex Stress Distribution in Engineering Materials; and approved proposals as to the destination of 'finds' from the excavations at Avebury.

(e) The Council approved the following resolutions from the Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies :

To recommend that the publications of scientific societies should conform so far as possible to a standard size of page for convenience in dealing with off-prints; and that for octavo publications the size of the British Association's Report be adopted as the standard.