REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



lUj^>ort of the Council for the year 1886-87, presented to the General 

 Committee at Manchester, on Wednesday, August 31, 1887. 



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 Birmingham the following have been elected 

 Corresponding Members of the Association : — 



Dr. Finsch. Professor Leeds. 



Dr. O. W. Huntington. Professor H. Carvill Lewis. 



Dr. A. Konig. Professor John Trowbridge. 



Lieut. K. Kund. 



The Council have nominated Mr. Oliver Heywood a Vice-President ot 

 the meeting at Manchester. 



An invitation for the year 1889 will be presented from Newcastle- 

 upon-Tyne ; but the invitations from Melbourne and Sydney have been 

 withdrawn. 



The following resolutions were referred by the General Committee to 

 the Council for consideration, and action if desirable : — 



(a) ' That the Council be requested to consider the question of 

 rendering the Reports and other papers communicated to the Association 

 more readily accessible to the members and others by issuing a limited 

 number of them in separate form, or in associated parts, in advance of 

 the annual volume.' 



The Council, after careful consideration of the question, are of opinion 

 that a certain number of copies of the more important Reports presented 

 to the Sections of the Association should be kept in stock and sold 

 separately, the number of copies printed and the price of each Report to 

 be fixed by the Secretaries after communication with the ofiicers of the 

 several Sections. 



(b) ' That the Council be requested to consider the advisability of 

 selling publicly the Presidential Addresses.' 



The Council have considered the question, and are of opinion that it 

 is desirable that printed copies of the addresses of the President and the 

 Presidents of Sections should be stitched together and sold. 



That a number of copies not exceeding 1,000 should be printed, and 

 that these should be placed on sale, at the price of one shilling, through 

 agents or otherwise, as may be considered most suitable. 



(c) ' That the Council be requested to consider the advisability of 

 calling the attention of the proprietor of Stonehenge to the danger in 

 which several of the stones are at the present time from the burrowing 

 of rabbits, and also to the desirability of removing the wooden props 

 which support the horizontal stone of one of the trilithons ; and in view 

 of the great value of Stonehenge as an ancient national monument to express 

 the hope of the Association that some steps will be taken to remedy these 

 sources of danger to the stones.' 



The Council have carefully considered the question, and having had 

 the advantage of perusing the detailed report recently prepared by a 

 deputation of the Wilts Archaeological and Natural History Society on 

 the condition of the whole of the stones constituting Stonehenge, are of 

 opinion that the proprietor should be ajDproached with the expression of 



