REPORT OF THE COUXCIL. XCIU 



necessary steps may Ije taken by the Council to bring pressure to bear 

 upon the Educational Committees through tlie Board of Education. 



' The standing British Association Sub-Committees of and appointed 

 by the Corresponding Societies, whether for educational or any other 

 branch of work, would, through the Corresponding Societies Committee, 

 be in touch with the Association, and it would always be open for these 

 Sub-Committees to forward to the Corresponding Societies Committee 

 suggested subjects for investigation or for discussion at the Conference. 

 Your Committee are also of opinion that it would help to reassure the 

 Corresponding Societies that the Association has a real interest in their 

 welfare if the General Officers of the Association were made members ex 

 officio of the Corresponding Societies Committee, so that thpy might keep in 

 touch with the work of this Committee and also take part in the Conference 

 of Delegates, and they recommend that in future the Council in nominating 

 the members of this Committee add the General Officei-s to the list,' 



The Council recommend that the opening clause of Rule 10, relating 

 to Corresponding Societies, be modified so as to read : — 



' " The Organising Committees of each Section shall be instructed 

 to transmit to the Secretaries of the Sections, and through these to 

 the Secretaries of the Conference of Delegates, copies of any recom- 

 mendations, &c." ' 



On the invitation of the Organising Committee of the International 

 Congress for Applied Chemistry, to be held in June 1903 at Berlin, the 

 Council appointed the President (Pi-ofessor James Dewar), Sir Henry 

 Roscoe, and Professor Meldola to represent the British Association as 

 Delegates. 



The Council have nominated the Right Hon. the Earl Spencer, 

 K.G., LL.D., Chancellor of the Victoria University, the Right Hon. the 

 Earl of Sefton, Sir George Pilkington, Alfred Hopkinson, LL.D., K.C., 

 Vice-Chancellor of the Victoria IJnivei'sity, and Mr. E. Marshall Hall, 

 K.C., M.P., Vice-Presidents of the Association for the Meeting at 

 Southport. 



The Council nominate Mr. W. Whitaker B.A., F.R.S., Chairman ; the 

 Rev. J. O. Bevan, M.A., Vice-Chairman ; and Mr. F. VV. Rudler, 

 Secretary, to the Conference of Delegates of the Corresponding Societies, 

 to be held during the Meeting at Southport. 



A Report from the Corresponding Societies Committee for the past 

 year, together with the list of the Corresponding Societies and the titles 

 of the more important papers, especially those referring to Local 

 Scientific Investigations, published by those Societies during the year 

 ending May 31, 1903, has been received. 



The Corresponding Societies Committee, consisting of Mr. W. 

 Whitaker (Chairman), Mr. F. W. Rudler (Secretary), Professor R. 

 Meldola, Mr. T. V. Holmes, Sir John Evans, Mr. J. Hopkinson, Dr. 

 H. R. Mill, Mr. Horace T. Brown, Rev. J. O. Bevan, Professor W. W. 

 Watts, Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, Mr. C. H. Read, Dr. Vaughan Cornish, 

 and the General Officers of the Association, are hereby nominated for 

 reappointment by the General Committee. 



The Council nominate the Right Honoui-able Arthur James Balfour, 

 D.C.L., F.R.S., as President for the Cambridge meeting in 190 i. 



