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delegates from the towns concerned could not be expected to attend. It 
may also be felt that members who are unable to leave the United 
Kingdom ought to have the opportunity of voting on these points, and on 
the election of the President and Officers for 1885. The Council, there- 
fore, recommend that the General Committee hold only two meetings at 
Montreal, and an adjourned meeting at some convenient place in London, 
on some day, to be hereafter fixed, towards the end of the month of 
October, 1884. 
It has been represented to the Council that a strong wish is felt in 
some of the Sections to meet at an earlier hour than eleven o’clock on the 
Saturday morning; the Council, therefore, recommend that an explana- 
tory note be added to the rule which fixes the hour of the Sectional 
Meetings, to state that on this day only the Committee of any Section 
ean arrange for that Section to commence its meeting at any time not 
earlier than ten or later than eleven o’clock. 
The Council have been informed that, through an inadvertence, the 
resolution of the Sectional Committee recommending the reappointment 
of the Committee on Underground Temperature was not transmitted to 
the Committee of Recommendations, and so did not receive the sanction 
of the General Committee. The Council, having regard to the important 
work carried on by that Committee, have requested them, through their 
Secretary, Professor Everett, to continue their labours and make a report, 
as though they had been duly appointed. The Council ask that this 
action of theirs be sanctioned, and that the above-named report be re- 
eeived and printed in the annual volume among the Reports of Com- 
mittees duly appointed. 
One vacancy having been caused in the Council by the death of 
Professor H. J. S. Smith, one by the retirement of Sir H. HK, L. Thuillier, 
one by the election of Professor Cayley to the Presidency, and one by 
that of Mr. Vernon Harcourt to the office of General Secretary, there 
remains only one name which it is necessary to remove from the list. 
The Council propose that, in accordance with the regulations, the 
retiring member shall be the following :— 
Mr. J. Heywood. 
The Council recommend the re-election of the other ordinary members 
of the Council, with the addition of the gentlemen whose names are dis- 
tinguished by an asterisk in the following list :— 
Adams, Professor W. G., F.R.S. Hastings, G. W., Esq., M.P. 
Bateman, J. F., Esq., F.R.S. Hawkshaw, J. Clarke, Hsq., F.G.S. 
*Bramwell, Sir F. J., F.R.S. *Henrici, Professor O., F.R.S. 
Darwin, F., Esq., F.R.S. Huggins, W., Esq., F.R.S. 
Dawkins, Professor W. Boyd, | Hughes, Professor T. McK., F.G.S. 
E.R.S. Jeffreys, Dr. J. Gwyn, F.R.S. 
De La Rue, Warren, Esq., F.R.S. Pengelly, W., Esq., F.R.S. 
* Dewar, Professor J., F.R.S. Perkin, W. H., Esq., F.R.S. 
Evans, Captain Sir F. J., K.C.B.,| Prestwich, Professor, F.R.S. 
E.R.S. Rayleigh, Lord, F.R.S. 
Flower, Professor W. H., F.R.S. Sanderson, Professor J. 8. Burdon, 
Gladstone, Dr. J. H., F.R.S. F.R.S. 
Glaisher, J. W. L., Esq., F.R.S. *Sclater-Booth, The Right Hon. 
*Godwin-Austen, Lieut.-Col. H. H., G., F.B.S. 
F.R.S. Sorby, Dr. H. C., F.R.S. 
