REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. Ixv 



continued, though on a somewhat different footing, it was considered 

 needless to proceed further in the matter. 



(4) That the Council of the British Association be requested to com- 

 municate at the earliest opportunity with the Executive Committee of the 

 International Fisheries Exhibition, in order to urge upon that body the 

 appropriation of a sufficient sum out of the surplus funds remaining in 

 their hands at the close of the Exhibition, to found a laboratory on the 

 British Coast for the study of Marine Zoology ; and to point out, as a 

 reason for such appropriation, the great value to science, and to the 

 prosperity of the fisheries industries, of such an institution. 



A communication was duly made to the Executive Committee of the 

 International Fisheries Exhibition, but there does not seem any prospect 

 of such an appropriation of the surplus funds. 



The Council have been informed that, through an inadvertence, the 

 resolution of the Sectional Committee recommending the reappointment 

 of the Committee on Screw Gauges was not transmitted to the Secretary 

 in time to be considered by the Committee of Recommendations, and so 

 did not receive the sanction of the General Committee. The Council, 

 having regard to the importance of the work carried on by that Com- 

 mittee, have requested them, through their Secretary, to continue their 

 labours and make a report as if duly appointed. The Council ask that 

 this action of theirs be sanctioned, and that the above-named report be 

 received and printed among the reports of the committees duly appointed. 



The report of the Committee on Local Scientific Societies, mentioned 

 in the report of the Council presented at the Southport meeting, has been 

 printed in the volume for 1883 ; and the Council, believing that the sug- 

 gestions made therein will be for the advantage of the Association, have 

 considered the alterations which their adoption would make necessary in 

 the rules. It is proposed to reserve the consideration of this question by 

 the General Committee for the meeting to be held in London in November. 

 The following are the alterations which will lie necessary : — 



No. I — In Bales, General Committee, Class B. — Temporary Members. 

 To replace the first clause (The President .... representing 

 him) by the following : ' Delegates nominated by the Correspond- 

 ing Societies under the conditions hereinafter explained.' 



No. II. — To insert in Rules, between the sections headed respectively 

 Committee of Recommendations and Local Committee, the following 

 sections : — 



Corresponding Societies. 



' (1 .) Any Society is eligible to be placed on the List of Corresponding 

 Societies of the Association which undertakes local scientific investiga- 

 tions, and publishes notices of the results. 



' (2.) Applications may be made by any Society to be placed on the 

 List of Corresponding Societies. Application must be addressed to the 

 Secretary on or before the first of June preceding the annual meeting at 

 which it is intended they should be considered, and must be accompanied 

 by specimens of the publications of the results of the local scientific 

 investigations recently undertaken by the Society. 



' (3.) A Corresponding Societies Committee shall be annually nomi- 

 nated by the Council and appointed by the Genei-al Committee for the 

 purpose of considering these applications, as well as for that of keeping 



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