REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. xlix 



classics, a recognition, in the form of allotted marks, which it prcviouslj- did 

 not possess. 



Your Council has given considerable attention to the important question 

 (raised at the last meeting) of a revision of the regulations relating to the 

 proceedings of the several Sections at the annual meetings of the Association. 

 Hitherto, it has been justly urged, these proceedings, from not having been 

 sufficiently pre-arranged, have fi-equently been of too desultory and mixed 

 a character. It is hoped that by a proper observance of the Revised Regu- 

 lations which are this day to be submitted to the General Committee for 

 approval, and by increased vigilance on the part of the Sectional Committees, 

 much of this may bo obviated, and that greater prominence may be given to, 

 and a fuller discussion secured for, the really important communications 

 which are annually made to the several Sections. 



The Council has pleasure in informing the General Committee that the 

 Association at length possesses a central office in London. The Asiatic 

 Society has, in consideration of a yearly rent of £100, granted to the Asso- 

 ciation entire possession of four of their rooms at 22 Albemarle Street, and 

 the use of another room for meetings of the Council and Committees. Your 

 Council, moreover, acting under the power given to thera by the General 

 Committee at Liverpool, have engaged Mr. Askham as clerk at a salary of 

 £120 a year. He is in attendance daily, and there transacts much of the 

 business which was formerly done at the office of Messrs. Taylor and Francis, 

 the printers to the Association. With the exception of certain works of 

 reference, the whole of the books and MSS. formerly deposited at Kew have 

 been transferred to 22 Albemarle Street, and are being catalogued and 

 rendered available for reference by Members of the Association. One of the 

 four rooms not at present in use has been sub-let to the London Mathe- 

 matical Society. 



The Council having been informed by Dr. Hirst of his desire at the close 

 of the present Meeting to resign his ofRce as Joint General Secretary of the 

 Association, appointed a Committee, consisting of the General Officers and 

 former General Secretaries, to select a successor. This Committee unani- 

 mously recommended the appointment of Captain Douglas Galton, C.B., 

 F.R.S. The Coimcil, entirely agreeing with the Committee as to the high 

 qualifications of Captain Galton for the office, cordially recommend his 

 election by the General Committee at their meeting on Monday next. 



The Council cannot allow this occasion to pass without expressing their 

 sense of the great services rendered to the Association by Dr. Hirst; but 

 they abstain from saying more, as they are unwilling to anticipate a more 

 mature expression on the part of the General Committee. 



The Council have added the following names of gentlemen present at the 

 last Meeting of the Association to the list of Corresponding Members : — 



Professor Van Beneden. 



Dr. Crafts. 



Dr. Anton Dohrn. 



H. H. the Rajah of Kolapore, 

 M. Plateau. 

 Professor Tchebichef. 



Governor Gilpin, Colorado. 



The General Committee will remember that Brighton has already been 

 selected as the place of meeting next year. Livitations for subsequent 

 meetings have been received by your Council from Bradford, Belfast, 

 and Glasgow. 



The Coimcil, lastly, recommend that the name of Professor Balfour be 

 added to the list of Vice-Presidents of the present Meeting. 



