Oxxvili REPORT—1890. 
Mechanics was intended to have been brought before the General Com- 
mittee at Newcastle, and have resolved to recommend that the Report 
which has been drawn up by the members of the proposed Committee be 
received and published among the Reports.! 
The report of the Corresponding Societies Committee has been re- 
ceived, and is now presented to the General Committee. 
The Corresponding Societies Committee, consisting of Mr. Francis 
Galton, Professor R. Meldola (Secretary), Professor A. W. William- 
son, Sir Douglas Galton, Professor Boyd Dawkins, Sir Rawson 
Rawson, Dr. J. G. Garson, Dr. J. Evans, Mr. J. Hopkinson, Mr. W. 
Whitaker, Mr. G. J. Symons, General Pitt-Rivers, Mr. W. Topley, and 
Professor T. G. Bonney, is hereby nominated for reappointment by the 
General Committee. 
The Council nominate Mr. G. J. Symons, F.R.S., Chairman, Professor 
T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., Vice-Chairman, and Professor R. Meldoia, F.R.S., 
Secretary to the Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies to 
be held during the meeting at Leeds. 
At the request of the Council of the Australasian Association for the 
Advancement of Science papers relating to the meeting of this Associa- 
tion, which is appointed to take place at Christchurch, New Zealand, 
commencing on January 15, 1891, have been placed in the Reception 
Room. Members of the British Association are invited to attend the 
meeting at Christchurch, and the facilities offered by Shipping Com- 
panies and by the Railway Commissioners in New Zealand are described 
in detail in the papers. 
The lease of the office of the Association, 22 Albemarle Street, 
London, W., will expire next year, and the Council, having ascertained 
that certain rooms in Burlington House were unoccupied, made an 
application to the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury for 
the use of these rooms. The Council are glad to report that the request 
has been granted under favourable conditions. The Council believe that 
a sum not exceeding 150/. will suffice for fitting and furnishing the rooms. 
In accordance with the regulations the five retiring Members of the 
Council will be :— 
Sir B.S. Ball. Prof. H. M‘Leod. 
Dr. A. Gamgee. Admiral Sir E. Ommanney. 
Prof. Ray Lankester. 
The Council recommend the re-election of the other ordinary Members 
of Council, with the addition of the gentlemen whose names are distin- 
guished by an asterisk in the following list :— 
Ayrton, Prof. W. E., F.R.S. Preece, W. H., Esq., F.R.S. 
Baker, Sir B., K.C.M.G., F.R.S. *Reinold, Prof. A. W., F.R.S. 
Blanford, W. T., Esq., F.R.S. Roberts-Austen, Prof. W. C., C.B., F.R.S. 
Crookes, W., Esq., F.R.S. Riicker, Prof. A. W., F.R.S. 
Darwin, Prof. G. H., F.R.S. Schafer, Prof. E. A., F.R.S. 
Douglass, Sir J. N., F.R.S. Schuster, Prof. A., F.R.S. 
Evans, Dr. J., F.R.8. Sidgwick, Prof. H., M.A. 
Fitzgerald, Prof. G. F., F.R.S. Thorpe, Prof. T. E., F.R.S. 
Geikie, Dr. A., F.R.S. *Ward, Prof. Marshall, F.2.S. 
*Glazebrook, R. T., Esq., F.R.S. *Wharton, Capt. W. J. L., R.N., F.R.S. 
Judd, Prof. J. W., F.B.S. *Whitaker, W., Esq., F.R.S. 
Liveing, Prof. G.D., F.R.S. Woodward, Dr. H., F.R.S. 
Martin, J. B., Esq., F.S.8. 
* The Committee was finally unable to agree to a Report 
