
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. XXVil 
“3, That Mr. Logan’s paper on the Geology of Canada be printed in full 
in the next volume of the Reports of the Association. 
“The Council have requested the gentlemen named in the two first recom- 
mendations to proceed in the matters referred to, pending a decision of the 
General Committee, that may be taken at Belfast; and have ordered that 
Mr. Logan’s paper on the Geology of Canada should be printed in full in 
the Ipswich volume of Reports. 
“TV. In concurrence with the Belfast Provisional Committee, the Council 
directed that the meeting should commence on Wednesday, the 1st Sep- 
tember; and requested the following gentlemen to undertake the offices of 
Presidents, Vice-Presidents and Secretaries of Sections respectively, subject 
to confirmation by the General Committee, viz 
Section A.—President, William Thomson, Esq., Professor of Mathe- 
matics, Glasgow. Vice-President, Rt. Rev. Dr. Denvir. 
Secretary W. J. M. Rankine, Esq. 
B.—President, Dr. Andrews, M.R.I.A. Secretaries, Dr. Hodges, 
Dr. Blyth. 
C.—President, Lieutenant Colonel Portlock, R.E. Secretaries, 
James M‘Adam, Esq., J. Bryce, Esq., Professor Nicol, 
Professor M‘Coy. 
D.—President, Wm. Ogilby, Esq. Secretaries, Dr. Lankester, 
J. C. Hyndman, Esq., Dr. Dickie. 
E.—President, Colonel Chesney, R.A. Secretaries, R. Cull, 
Esq., Dr. Norton Shaw, R. M‘Adam. 
F.—President, the Archbishop of Dublin. Vice-President, 
V. Whitla, Esq. Secretaries, Professor Hancock, J. 
M‘Adam, Esq,, jun. 
G.—President, James Walker, Esq., F.R.S. Vice-President, 
Ss at he Esq., C.E.. Secretary, James Thomson, Esq., 
«“V. The Council have added the names of the following cultivators of 
science who attended at the Ipswich meeting to the list of Corresponding 
Members of the British Association :— 
M. Babinet, Paris. 
Mr. P. G. Bond, Cambridge, U.S. 
M. Dufrenoy, Paris. 
M. Constant Prevost, Paris. 
*  M. Pierre Tchihatchef, Russian Embassy, Paris. 
Dr. N. Nordengsciold, Finland. A 
Professor Asa Gray, U.S. 
«VI. The Council have great pleasure in submitting the following list of 
invitations from which the General Committee will have to select the place 
of meeting in 1853, viz.— 
“Hull: from whence invitations were also received in 1838, 1839, 1842, 
1849, 1850 and 1851; in which invitations the Municipal Council and all 
the other public bodies of the town united. 
_ “Liverpool: from the Mayor and Corporation; the Literary and Philo- 
_ sophical Society; the Royal Institution; the Architectural and Archeolo- 
gical Society ; the Polytechnic Society ; Historie Society of Lancashire and 
Cheshire; being a renewal of the invitation presented at Edinburgh in 1850. 
“Brighton: from the Earl of Chichester and sixty-eight other gentlemen, 
