kxxviii SEPORT — 1901. 



Mr. G. W. Lamplugh, Professor W. A. Tilden, and the General Officers, 

 to report on this Resolution. 



In accordance with the recommendation of the Committee, the. Council 

 recommend that the present practice of electing members of Sectional 

 Committees be continued subject to the following modification : — 



' That any Member of the Association who has intimated the inten- 

 tion of attending a particular Meeting of the Association, and who has 

 already served upon a Committee of a Section, shall be eligible for 

 election as a Member of the Committee of that Section at its first 

 meeting.' 



(2) That the Council be requested to consider the appointment of a separate 



Section for education. 



The Council considered this proposal, and resolved that a Section of 

 Educational Science be established, to be entitled Section L, but that the 

 Section shall not necessarily meet each year. 



The following resolution, which waa passed at the Conference of 

 Delegates at Bradford, and accidentally not forwarded to the Committee 

 of Recommendations, was brought before the Council antl considered : — 



That the proposed Copyright Bill, so far as it affects the copyright of Scientific 

 Societies in their transactions, and the publication of abstracts of Scientific papers, 

 be referred to the General Committee ; and that they be requested to take such 

 action as will protect Scientific Societies. 



The Council authorised the General Officers to co-operate with other 

 Societies in regard to the question of copyright if a Bill is again brought 

 before Parliament. 



The Report of the Corresponding Societies Committee for the past 

 year, consisting of the list of the Corresponding Societies and the titles 

 of the more important papers, and especially those referring to Local 

 Scientific Investigations, published by those Societies during the year 

 ending June 1, 1901, has been received. 



The Corresponding Societies Committee, consisting of Mr. Francis 

 Galton, Mr. W. Whitaker {Chair 77ian), Dr. J. G. Garson, Sir J. Evans, Mr. 

 J. Hopkinson, Professor R. Meldola, Professor T. G. Bonney, Mr. T. V. 

 Holmes, Mr. Horace T. Brown, Rev. J. O. Bevan, Professor W. W. 

 Watts, Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, Mr. C. H. Read, and Mr. F. W. Rudler, 

 is hereby nominated for reappointment by the General Committee. 



The Council nominate Mr. F. W. Rudler, Chairman, Mr. W. Whitaker, 

 F.R.S., Vice-Chairman, and Dr. J. G. Garson and Mi". Alexander Somer- 

 ville. Secretaries, to the Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies 

 to be held during the Meeting at Glasgow. 



The Council have received Reports from the General Treasurer during 

 the past year, and his accounts from July 1, 1900, to June 30, 1901, 

 which have been audited, are presented to the General Committee. 



In accordance with the regulations the retiring Members of the 

 Council will be : — 



Mr. Francis Darwin. I Professor E. B. Poulton. 



Dr. W. H. Uaskell. Professor J. M. Thomson. 



Professor L. F. Vernon Harcourt. I 



