XViil REPORT—1849. 
from Prof. Dove, explanatory of the Maps and of the more obvious conclu- 
sions deduced from them. ‘The Maps have been completed, but from acci- 
dental circumstances the packet containing the first 200 copies, prepared for 
the Association, has not yet been despatched from Berlin, and cannot be 
expected to reach England until after the Meeting at Birmingham is over; 
but copies of the Maps and Report will be forwarded immediately they 
arrive to Members who may be desirous of purchasing them, and who give 
their names for that purpose in the Reception Room. ‘The cost of each 
copy will be 5s. for the three Maps. 
V. The Council has directed that the following additions should be made 
to the Regulations, according to which the volumes of the Reports are 
distributed to the Members :— 
1. That Members who have formerly paid £5 as-a life composition, and 
shall at any future time pay an additional sum of £5, shall be entitled to 
receive (gratis) the volumes of the Transactions which shall be published 
after the date of such additional payments. 
2. That Members shall have the opportunity of purchasing any of the 
already published volumes of the Association, of which more than 100 copies 
remain, at half the price at which the volumes were issued to the public. 
VI. The Council have great pleasure in submitting to the General Com- 
mittee the following list of invitations, from which the General Committee 
will have to select the place of meeting of the Association in 1850. 
a. Invitations received at Swansea by the General Committee, and which 
stood over after the selection of Birmingham, 1849 :— 
From Ipswich, for 1849; signed by the High Sheriff, the Bishop of 
Norwich, and eighty gentlemen of the Eastern Counties. 
From Bath, for 1850; signed by the Mayor. 
From Derby, for 1850. 
b. Invitations received since the Swansea Meeting and communicated to 
the Council :— 
From Edinburgh, for 1850; from the Lord Provost, Magistrates and 
Council; from the Senatus Academicus; and from the Royal Society of 
Edinburgh. 
From Belfast for 1850 or 1851; from the Town Council; the Royal 
Academical Institution ; the Natural History and Philosophical Society ; 
and from the Harbour Commissioners. , 
From Manchester, for 1852; from the Royal Institution; the Geological 
Society ; the Natural History Society; the School of Design; and the 
Mechanics’ Institution. 
From Hull, for an early meeting; from the Literary and Philosophical 
Institution. 
. VII. The Council have received and submit to the General Committee 
the following letter from Lieut.-Col. Sabine :— 
* To the President and Council of the British Association. 
“ GrntLremen,—I beg leave to acquaint you that it is my intention, at the 
Meeting of the Association at Birmingham, to resign into the hands of the 
General Commtttee the office of General Secretary, with which I have been 
honoured, by annual re-election, for ten successive years. 
“I have formed this determination, not from any occurrence which has 
rendered me less willing than heretofore, to undertake the duties and 
responsibilities of that office, or to make the sacrifice of time, convenience, 
and of other interests which it requires; nor from a fear that the kindness 
and indulgence with which my endeavours to discharge its duties have been 
