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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
Report of the Council for the year 1882-83, presented to the General 
Commutiee at Southport, on Wednesday, September 19, 1883. 
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 Southampton the following have been elected 
Corresponding Members of the Association :— 
Baumhauer, Dr. HE. H. Langley, Professor 
Clausius, Dr. R. Rath, Professor G. vom 
Du Bois-Raymond, Professor 
The Council have nominated Principal J. W. Dawson, C.M.G., LL.D., 
F.R.S., to be a Vice-President for the meeting at Southport. 
As the lamented death of Professor F. M. Balfour, one of the General 
Secretaries, occurred only a few weeks before the meeting at South- 
ampton, the Council were not prepared at that date to recommend his 
successor, but at their next meeting they nominated Mr. A. G. Vernon 
Harcourt, F.R.S., as a General Secretary, and requested him to act in 
that capacity until the next meeting of the Association. They accord- 
ingly now recommend that he be appointed a General Secretary in the 
room of the late Professor F. M. Balfour. 
They regret the loss by death of three of their number. Of these the 
first was Professor H. J. 8S, Smith, who at Southampton was elected one 
of the Vice-Presidents for this meeting ; a man of whom it is difficult to 
say whether he was more regarded with admiration for his rare talents, 
or beloved for his personal qualities. The Association was deprived, 
almost simultaneously, of two of its Trustees; both former General 
Officers; both past Presidents. The very advanced age of General 
Sabine had for several years prevented him from taking any active part in 
the business of the Association (though in his time he had been one of 
its most energetic and laborious members), but in Mr. William Spottis- 
woode, President of the Royal Society, the Council and the whole Associa- 
tion have lost one who was ever active in promoting its interests, to 
whom, it was hoped, no small period yet remained for good and useful 
work. Few men have been so deeply and deservedly lamented, for in 
him were united, to an exceptional degree, great mental powers, singular 
ability in practical matters, and a noble unselfishness. The Council 
recommend that in the place of the late General Sabine and the late Mr. 
Spottiswoode, Lord Rayleigh and Sir Lyon Playfair be elected Trustees of 
the Association. 
Four resolutions were referred by the General Committee to the 
Council for consideration, and action, if desirable. In respect of one of 
these, that which empowered the Council to communicate with Foreign 
Scientific Associations with the view of promoting the organisation of an 
