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pro quo, attendance at its annual meetings, and its 

 published transactions. 



GIFTS TO THE ASSOCIATION 



Few specific gifts for research have been made to 

 the Association. In 1903 Sir Frederick Bramwell 

 made a gift of 50, which was placed in 2| per cent, 

 self-cumulating consolidated stock, to be devoted 

 in 1931 (i.e. at the centenary of the Association) 

 to paying ' an honorarium to a gentleman to be 

 selected by the Council to prepare a paper . . . 

 dealing with the whole question of the prime movers 

 of 1931, and especially with the then relation between 

 steam engines and internal combustion engines/ 

 Bramwell had himself, at the York meeting in 1881, 

 shown noteworthy prescience of ' a change in the 

 production of power from fuel. However much/ he 

 said, ' the mechanical section of the British Association 

 may to-day contemplate with regret even the mere 

 distant prospect of the steam engine becoming a thing 

 of the past, I very much doubt whether those who 

 meet here fifty years hence will then speak of that 

 motor except in the character of a curiosity to be 

 found in a museum/ 



BramwelFs is an instance of a gift for the purpose 

 of a specific investigation : it was not until 1912 that 

 the efforts of the Association towards the general 

 support of research received, unsolicited, their first 

 endowment. This took the form of a cheque for 

 10,000, which was handed to the General Treasurer 

 at the Dundee meeting in that year by Sir James 

 Caird, free of condition. This sum was funded, and 

 the income placed at the disposal of the Council for 



