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3. The members of the Provisional Council* are hereby elected members of the 

 Research Council, together with Mr. G. H. Knibbs and Mr. G. Lightfoot (repre- 

 senting Economics and Statistics), Professor Laby (representing Physics) and 

 Messrs. R. Sticht and G. C. Klug (representing Mining and Metallurgy). 



4. The members (as defined in Clause 3) shall co-opt additional members 

 within the numerical limit prescribed in Clause 2, and shall select such additional 

 members in consultation with the Presidents of the more important scientific, 

 technical, and learned Associations and Societies of the Commonwealth. 



5. The Council may appoint as associate members scientific workers resident 

 in Australia who are deemed likely to confer benefit by their researches. 



6. The Council may appoint such Standing Committees and Special Com- 

 mittees as it deems requisite for national or international purposes. 



7. The Council may appoint such office-bearers as it may determine. These 

 shall hold office for a term of two years and be re -eligible. 



8. A meeting of the members (as defined in Clauses 3 and 4) shall be held at Sydney 

 not later than May, 1921, for the purposes indicated in Clause 4, and a meeting 

 of the whole Council so constituted shall meet as soon as possible thereafter 

 for the purposes indicated in Rules 5, 6, and 7, and for the formulation of by-laws 

 and any other necessary business. 



9. Members unable to attend any such meeting may communicate their views 

 beforehand in writing to the Hon. Secretary, and all such communications shall 

 receive full consideration at the meeting. 



10. Every member and associate member shall retain his membership for life 

 unless it be terminated (1) by his resignation, (2) by his ceasing to reside in 

 Australia, or (3) by vote of at least two-thirds of the members. 



11. The Council shall submit a full report of its work and proceedings to the 

 Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science on the occasion of each 

 meeting of the Association. 



12. Until other arrangements are made for the financial support of the Council, 

 each member thereof shall be liable tp contribute the sum of £2 2s. per annum, 

 and each associate member £1 Is. per annum. 



Permanent Honorary Secretary of the Association and Local 

 Secretary for New South Wales. 



Mr. J. H. Maiden, who was appointed to his present offices on 

 28th December, 1907, begged leave to resign them on the ground of 

 other duties. As he considered that it was not in the best interests of 

 the Association that he should leave office immediately after the 

 Melbourne meeting, while so many details required attention, he pro- 

 posed that he be relieved of office at the end of the year 1921. This 



* The Austialasian Research Council, acthig as the Australian Branch of the International 

 Research Council, was inaugurated at the suggestion of the Royal Society of London at a 

 meeting of delegates representing the various Australian Scientific Societies held in Sydney, 

 in August, 1919. At this meeting a Provisional Council was appointed, and it was resolved 

 that the selection of members of the Pennauent Council be left in the hands of that of the 

 A.A.A.S. at its next meeting in January, 1921. 



The following were elected members of the Provisional Council: — Sir Harry Allen, Dr. J. 

 M. Baldwin, Mr. R. H. Cambage (Hon. Secretary), Prof. H. S. Carslaw, Prof. H. (i. Chapman 

 (Hon. Treasurer), Prof. W. E. Cooke. Sir Edgeworth David (Chairman), ^Ir. A. .1. Gibson. 

 Prof. W. A. Haswell, Mr. C. Hedley, Mr. L. Hills, Mr. H. A. Hunt, Piof. T. R. Lyle, Mi. ,1. 

 'H. Maiden, Prof. Orme Masson, Sir D. Mawson, Prof. W. A. Osborne. Prof. .1. A. Pollock. 

 Prof. H. J. Priestley, Mr. A. E. V. Richardson, Prof. E. W. Skeats, Sir Baldwin Spencer, 

 Prof. J. D. Stewart, Dr. T. G. Taylor. Prof. R. D. Watt. Prof. D. A. Welsh, Prof. N. T. M. 

 Wilsmore, Prof. H. A. Woodruff. 



