AND THE STATE 231 



But did Gladstone and Disraeli, according to 

 their different lights, introduce even though uncon- 

 sciously some tendency to divergence between the 

 main aims of government and of science ? The 

 characters of both men (at least in their capacity 

 as statesmen) make that not inconceivable. 



1879-80. The Council conveyed the thanks of 

 the Association to the First Lord of the Admiralty, 

 the President of the Board of Trade, the French 

 Minister of Public Works, the Belgian Minister of 

 Public Works, and other authorities and individuals, 

 for assistance in carrying out tidal observations and 

 causing them to be communicated to the committee 

 of the Association dealing with that subject. Special 

 reference, it may be added, is made to the collabora- 

 tion of the Association Frangaise pour PAvancement 

 des Sciences. 



1883-84. To a request by the Council that a 

 physical and biological survey of Milford Haven and 

 the Pembrokeshire coast should be undertaken, on 

 the plan followed by the American Fisheries Com- 

 mission, the Treasury returned an answer to the 

 effect that the Admiralty had no vessels available 

 for such service. 



Eeference has been made in an earlier chapter 

 to the reform of the Patent Law which was taking 

 place about this period, and to the Association's part 

 in it. 



1884-85. (See Chapter IV, Montreal Meeting.) 



1889-90. The Council urged upon the Govern- 

 ment of India the desirability of procuring anthro- 

 pometric measurements of a representative series of 

 tribes and castes in the Punjab, Madras, Bombay, 

 the Central Provinces, and Assam, and of including 



