REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. xliii 



in the " Report of the Schools-Inquiry Commission," presented to Her Ma- 

 jesty, and laid before your Honoiirable House. 



That the recommendations of the Schools-Inquiry Commission, in regard 

 to the introduction of the study of Natural Science into all Secondary Schools, 

 are in general accordance with the views of the Association. 



That, in the opinion of the Association, the study of Natural Science, 

 whether as a means of disciplining the mind, or for providing knowledge 

 useful for the purposes of life, is of essential importance to the youth of this 

 country; and that it ought to form a part of education in all Secondary 

 Schools. 



That the Association consider the Secondary Education of the United 

 Kingdom, both in regard to the quality and the range of the subjects of 

 study, to be incommensurate with the needs of a well-organized state ; they 

 therefore request your Honourable House to enact such laws as shall make 

 Natural Science an essential part of the course of education, and to put it on 

 a footing of equality with the most favoured subjects of study. 



The Second Ilesolutiou referred to the Council by the General Committee 

 at Norwich was : — 



That the Council of the British Association be requested to urge upon 

 Government and through the British Government upon the Governments of 

 Foreign Nations, the importance of fixing, by permanent bench-marks, cer- 

 tain points of level, and also of position in reference to secular changes (1st) 

 in the elevation of the land as referred to the sea-level, and (2nd) in relation 

 to changes of coast-line, and to the position of ice-masses. 



That the CouncU of this Association be requested to ask the support and 

 cooperation in this of the Council of the Iloyal Society ; and that the fol- 

 lowing be a Committee to assist the Council and that of the Eoyal Society 

 in the definition of the works proposted to be executed : — W. Sartorius von 

 Waltershausen, Lieut. -Colonel Sir Hemy James, E.E., F.E.S., Ilobert A. C. 

 Godwin- Austen, F.E.S. 



The Council appointed a Committee, consisting of Sir Henry James, Sir 

 C. Whcatstone, Mr. Godwin-Austen, Professor Tyudall, Professor Ilamsay, 

 the President, General Secretaries, and Treasurer, to consider this resolution 

 and to report thereon. 



This Eeport being favourable, your Council applied to the Council of the 

 Eoyal Society, who at once promised their support in any application to 

 Government, but deemed it unnecessary to augment the Committee already 

 elected by your Council for the purpose of defining the works proposed to 

 be executed. This Committee has not yet concluded its labours. 



The following foreign men of Science, who were present at the Norwich 

 Meetiag, have been elected Corresponding Members : — 



Baron von Miidler, Dorpat. 

 Padre Secchi, Director of the Obser- 

 vatory at Eome 



Professor Aug. Morren, Doyen de la 



Faculte de Science, Marseilles. 

 Professor Yogt, Geneva. 

 Professor Broca, Paris. 



Professor L. Eadlkofer, Munich. 



Professor Karl Koch. 



M. D'Avesac, Mem. de ITnstitut de 



France. 

 Dr. H. A. Weddell, Poitiers. 

 M. A. Heynsius, Leyden. 



The Council are able to report that the Annual Yolume was this year 

 again issiicd in June ; a stiU earlier publication being desirable, however, it 

 is proposed to publish the next volume at Christmas : but in order to do so 

 it win be necessary to defer until the foUowirg year the publication of 



