CXvill REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1908-1909. 
I. Dr. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., has been unanimously nominated by 
the Council to fill the office of President of the Association for 1910 
(Sheffield Meeting). 
Mr. Francis Darwin, F.R.S., President, represented the Association 
at the Commemoration by the University of Cambridge of the 
Centenary of the Birth of Charles Darwin. 
Dr. Augustus D. Waller, M.D., F.R.S., represented the Association 
at the Celebration of the 350th Anniversary of the foundation of the 
University of Geneva. 
Sir J. Crichton Browne, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., represented the 
Association at the Public Health Congress at Leeds. 
II. The Council adopted a Rrsouurion expressing the sympathy 
of the Association, through the General Secretaries, with the widow of 
the late Mr. J. Lomas, who was Recorder of Section C at the time of 
his death. 
III. The following Nominations are made by the Council :— 
Conference of Delegates.—Professor A. C. Haddon (Chairman), 
Mr. F. W. Rudler, I.8.0. (Vice-Chairman), Mr. W. P. D. Stebbing 
(Secretary). 
Corresponding Societies Committee.—Mr. W. Whitaker (Chairman), 
Mr. W. P. D. Stebbing (Secretary), Rev. J. O. Bevan, Sir Edward 
Brabrook, Dr. J. G. Garson, Dr. E. H. Griffiths, Mr. T. V. Holmes, 
Mr. J. Hopkinson, Mr. A. L. Lewis, Professor R. Meldola, Dr. H. R. 
Mill, Mr. F. W. Rudler, Rey. T. R. R. Stebbing. 
IV. A preliminary Report has been received from the CorrE- 
SPONDING SOCIETIES COMMITTEE. 
The Report contained the following paragraph :— 
‘ The Committee desire to bring before the Council the unofficial posi- 
tion of the Chairman of the Conference of Delegates. They 
suggest that he should be ez officio a member of the Com- 
mittee of Recommendations, and therefore in a similar posi- 
tion to the Presidents of Sections. ’ 
The Council resolved to promulgate an amendment of the Rules, giving 
effect to the above suggestion, and in the meantime to invite the Chairman 
to be present at the meeting of the Committee of Recommendations. 
V. A Resouution, referred to the Council by the General Committee 
at Dublin, has been received 
From Sections A and E jointly :— 
‘That the Council should approach the Board of Agriculture with 
a view of ascertaining whether it is not possible for the 
Director-General of the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain 
and Ireland to undertake the remeasurement of the two 
' principal ares (meridional and longitudinal) as part of the 
current work of his department.’ 
