Ixxiv REPORT — 1889. 



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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



Report of the Council for the year 1888-89, 'presented to the General 

 Committee at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on Wednesday, Sepfemher 11, 1889. 



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 Bath the following have been elected Corre- 

 sponding Members of the Association : — 



W. H. Dall, U.S. Geological Survey. 

 G. K. Gilbert, U.S. Geological Survey. 

 Dr. Max von Haiitken, Budapest. 

 Horatio Hale, Ontario. 



Prof. G. Stefanesou, Bucharest. 

 Wladimir Vernadsky, University of St. 

 Petersburg. 



The Council have nominated Sir Charles Mark Palmer, Bart, M.P., a 

 Vice-President of the meeting at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 



An invitation for the year 1891 will be presented from Cardiff. 



The General Committee having granted a sum of 2001. at their last 

 meeting to the Marine Biological Association, thus making up the total 

 sum given by the Association to 5001., the Association became entitled 

 to nominate a Governor of the Marine Biological Association, and the 

 Council have nominated Professor Flower to the oflBce. 



It having been reported that the Committee on the Prehistoric In- 

 habitants of the British Islands, appointed on the recommendation of the 

 Committee of Section H, had, through an oversight of the Sectional 

 Secretary, not been reappointed, the Committee have been informed that 

 if they will make a report to the Section, as if duly appointed, the Council 

 are prepared to bring the matter before the Committee of Recommenda- 

 tions, with a view to the appointment of the Committee, and the publica- 

 tion of their Report. 



A request having been received from the Honorary Secretaries of the 

 International Congress of Hygiene and Statistics, that the Association 

 would nominate two members to serve on the General Committee to be 

 formed for organising the Congress, the Council have nominated Sir 

 Frederick J. Bramwell and Sir H. E. Roscoe for that purpose. 



The following resolution was referred by the General Committee to 

 the Council for consideration and action if desirable : — 



' That the Council be recommended to consider what measures, if any, it might 

 be desirable to take with respect to the apparatus from time to time purchased by 

 funds voted by the Association.' 



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

 the attention of the Chairmen and Members of Committees should be 

 specially directed to the existing rules, viz. : — 



' Members and Committees who may be entrusted with sums of money for collect- 

 ing specimens of Natural History are requested to reserve the specimens so obtained 

 for distribution by authority of the Association. 



