Sept. 8, 1887] 



NATURE 



441 



B. — Chemistry. 



Silent Discharge 



Properties of Solutions 



Recording Water Analysis Results 



Influence of Silicon on Steel 

 Methods for Teaching Chemistry ... 

 Isomeric Naphthalene Derivatives ... 

 Action of Light on Hydro-acids 



Q.— Geology. 



Sea Beach near Bridlington 



Geological Record 



" Manure " Gravels of Wexford 



Erosion of Sea Coasts 



Erratic Blocks 



Underground Waters 



PalcEontographical Society ... 



Volcanic Phenomena of Japan 



Pliocene Fauna of St. Erth ... ... ... 



Carboniferous Flora of Lancashire and West Yorkshire 

 Volcanic Phenomena of Vesuvius ... 



D. — Biology, 



Zoology and Botany of the West Indies ... 



Flora of Bahamas 



Development of Fishes, St. Andrews 



Marine Laboratory, Plymouth 



Migration of Birds 



Flora of China 



Naples Zoological Station ... 



Physiology of the Lymphatic System 



Marine Station at Granton ... 



Peradenyia Botanical Station 



Development of Teleostei ... 



E. — Geography. 

 Depth of Frozen Soil... 



F. — Economic Science and Statistics. 



Precious Metals in Circulation 

 Value of the Monetary Standard ... 



G. — Mechanics. 

 Investigation of Estuaries by Models 



H. — A nthropology. 



Effect of Occupations on Development 

 North- Western Tribes of Canada ... 

 Prehistoric Race in the Greek Islands 

 Anthropological Notes and Queries 



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Captain Sir Douglas Galton (one of the general secre- 

 taries) submitted the following report of the Council to 

 the General Committee at the meeting held on the 

 31st ult. : — 



The Council have received reports during the past 

 year from the general treasurer, and his account for the 

 year will be laid before the General Committee this day. 

 Since the meeting at Birmingham the following have 

 been elected corresponding members of the Association : 

 Dr. Finsch, Dr. O. W. Huntington, Dr. A. Konig, Lieut. 

 R. Kund, Prof. Leeds, Prof. H. Carvill Lewis, Prof. John 

 Trowbridge. The Council have nominated Mr. Oliver 

 Hey wood a vice-president of the meeting at Manchester. 

 An invitation for the year 1889 will be presented from 

 Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; but the invitations from Mel- 

 bourne and Sydney have been withdrawn. The following 

 resolutions were referred by the General Committee to 

 the Council for consideration, and action if desirable : — 

 {a) " That the Council be requested to consider the 

 question of rendering the reports and other papers 

 communicated to the Association more readily acces- 



sible to the members and others by issuing a limited 

 number of them in separate form or in associated 

 parts, in advance of the annual volume." The Council, 

 after careful consideration of the question, are of 

 opinion that a certain number of copies of the more 

 important reports presented to the Sections of the As- 

 sociation should be kept in stock and sold separately, 

 the number of copies printed and the price of each report 

 to be fixed by the secretaries after communication with the 

 officers of the several Sections, {h) "That the Council be 

 requested to consider the advisability of selling publicly 

 the presidential addresses." The Council have considered 

 the question, and are of opinion that it is desirable that 

 printed copies of the addresses of the president and the 

 presidents of Sections should be stitched together and 

 sold ; that a numberof copies, not exceeding 1000, should 

 be printed ; and that these should be placed on sale, at the 

 price of one shilling, through agents or otherwise, as may be 

 considered most suitable, {c) " That the Council be re- 

 quested to consider the advisability of calling the attention 

 of the proprietor of Stonehenge to the danger in which 

 several of the stones are at the present time from 

 the burrowing of rabbits, and also to the desirabiUty 

 of removing the wooden props which support the hori- 

 zontal stone of one of the trilithons ; and in view of 

 the great value of Stonehenge as an ancient national 

 monument, to express the hope of the Association that 

 some steps will be taken to remedy these sources of 

 danger to the stones." The Council have carefully con- 

 sidered the question, and having had the advantage of 

 perusing the detailed report recently prepared by a de- 

 putation of the Wilts Archaeological and Natural History 

 Society on the condition of the whole of the stones consti- 

 tuting Stonehenge, are of opinion that the proprietor 

 should be approached with the expression of a hope that 

 he will direct such steps to be taken as shall effectually pre- 

 vent further damage, id) " That the Council be requested 

 to consider whether a memorial should be presented to 

 Her Majesty's Government, urging them to undertake and 

 supervise agricultural experiments, and to procure further 

 and more complete agricultural statistics." The Council 

 have considered the question, and are not prepared to 

 memorialize the Government on the subject. The ques- 

 tion of the re-arrangement of the journal has been 

 brought before the Council by Mr. J. B. Martin, and, 

 after careful consideration, the Council are of opinion 

 that it is unnecessary to print in each number of the 

 journal the list of the papers read on the previous 

 day ; also that it would be well to place the list of 

 officers of each Section at the head of the list of 

 papers to be read in that Section. The Council wish 

 to obtain the sanction of the General Committee to 

 these alterations. The Council having considered a letter 

 addressed to them by Mr. R. H. Scott, are of opinion that 

 it should be an instruction to the secretaries of all com- 

 mittees, other than committees of Sections, to send notices 

 of all meetings to each member of a committee, and that 

 the draft report of the committee should first be sent in 

 proof to each member, and then submitted to a meeting 

 of the committee specially called for the purpose. The 

 Corresponding Societies Committee, consisting of Mr. F. 

 Galton (chairman). Prof. A. W. Williamson, Sir Douglas 

 Galton, Prof. Boyd Dawkins, Sir Rawson Rawson, Dr. J. 

 G. Garson, Dr. J. Evans, Mr. J. Hopkinson, Prof. R. 

 Meldola (secretary), Mr. W. Whitaker, Mr. G. J. Symons, 

 and General Pitt-Rivers, having by an oversight not been 

 re-appointed at Birmingham last year, the Council have 

 requested these gentlemen to continue the work of their 

 committee, and now nominate them for re-election, with 

 the addition of the names of Mr. W. Topley, Mr. H. G. 

 Fordham, and Mr. William White. In accordance with 

 the regulations the five retiring members of the Council 

 will be Mr. W. Pengelly, Sir Richard Temple, Dr. De La 

 Rue, Sir F. J. Bramwell, and Mr. J. C. Hawkshaw. 



