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Report of the Council, 1906-7. 



The Council and Officers. 



Four ordinary and two special meetings of the Council have been 

 held during the year, at which the average attendance has been twelve. 

 The Council desire to express their thanks to the Eoyal Society, 

 in whose rooms at Burlington House the meetings have been held. 



Committees of the Council have visited the Laboratories at 

 Plymouth and Lowestoft and inspected the details of the work which 

 is being carried on. 



In November, Lord Carrington, President of the Board of Agriculture 

 and Fisheries, visited the Lowestoft Laboratory, and was entertained 

 by the members of the Council at luncheon. 



In December, a deputation to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in 

 support of an application for funds to carry on the work of the 

 Association, was organized by the Council. The deputation was 

 introduced by Mr. Austen Chamberlain, m.p., and was received by 

 Mr. M'Kenna, m.p., Financial Secretary of the Treasury, in the 

 unavoidable absence of Mr. Asquith. As a result of the Council's 

 application the usual grant to tlie Association for the purposes of the 

 Plymouth Laboratory was renewed, and the Council were asked to 

 continue to carry out the work of the International Investigations 

 until July 1908. 



The Council have to record with deep regret the death of Professor 

 Alfred Newton, a Vice-President since the foundation of the Association; 

 and of Sir Michael Foster, k.c.b., also a Vice-President, and for many 

 years the representative of the University of Cambridge on the Council. 

 One of Sir Michael Foster's last public utterances was made at the 

 deputation to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he warmly 

 advocated the claims of the work of the Association on the financial 

 support of the Government. 



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