REPORT OF Ttifi dOUNCIL. 



CXXlll 



June 1, 1908. 



Sir, — I am instructed by the Corporation of Portsmouth to invite the 

 British Association for the Advancement of Science to hold their Annual 

 Meeting at Portsmouth in 1911. 



A Local Committee will be appointed in order to make all necessary 

 arrangements, if the in^dtation can be accepted by the Association. 



I am. Sir, 



Your obedient Servant, 



{Signed) A. Hellard, Town Clerk. 



XIIT. The Council have received reports from the General Treasurer 

 during the past year. His Accounts from July 1, 1907, to June 30, 1908; 

 have been audited, and are presented to the General Committee. 



XIV. In accordance with the Regulations, the retiring Members of 

 the Council are : hy seniority — Professor D. J. Cunningham and Dr. 

 A. C. Haddon ; by least attendance — Professor J. N. Langley, C. Vernon 

 Boys, and Professor Wyndham Dunstan. 



The Council recommend the re-eleotion of the other ordinary Members; 

 with the addition of those whose names are distinguished by an asterisk 

 in the following list, leaving two vacancies to be filled up by the General 

 Committee : — 



Abney, Sir W., K.C.B., F.R.S. 



Anderson, Tempest, M.D., D.Sc. 



Bourne, Professor G. C, D.Sc. 



Bowley, A. L., M.A. 



Brabrook, Sir Edward, C.B. 



Brown, Dr. Horace T., F.R.S. 

 *Brunton, Sir Lauder, Bart., Sc.D., F.R.S. 

 ♦Close, Major C. F., R.E., C.M.G. 



Dyson, Professor F. W., F.R.S. 



Forsyth, Professor A. R., F.R.S. 



Glazebrook, Dr. R. T., F.R.S. 



Hartland, E. Sidney, F.S.A. 

 Hawksley, G., M.Inst.C.E. 

 Hogarth, D. G., M.A. 

 McKendrick, Professor J. G., F.R.S. 

 Mitchell, Dr. P. Chalmers, F R.S. 

 Poulton, Professor E. B., F.R.S. 

 Prain, Lieut.-Colonel D., CLE., F.R.S. 

 Sherrington, Professor C. S., F.R.S. 

 Shipley, A. E., F.R.S. 

 "Tutton, Dr. A. E. H., F.R.S. 

 Watts, Professor W. W., F.R.S. 



Woodward, Dr. A. Smith, F.R.S. 



XV. The General Officers have been nominated by the Council for 

 reappointment. 



XVI. The Council recommend that, on the occasion of the Meeting of 

 the Association at Winnipeg, the President, Vice-Presidents, and Officers of 

 the American Association for the Advancement of Science be invited 

 to attend as honorary Members for the year ; and, further, that all Fellows 

 and Members of the American Association be admitted Members of the 

 British Association on the same terms as old Annual Members — namely, 

 on payment of \l., without the contribution of an admission fee, and 

 with the additional privilege of receiving a free copy of the Report of the 

 Meeting. 



XVII. The following have been admitted as Members of the General 

 Committee : — 



Auden, Dr. G. A. 

 Bernacchi, Mr. L. C. 

 Boeddicker, Dr. Otto. 

 Boulton, Dr. W. S. 

 Crooke, Mr. William. 

 Fraser, Miss Helen. 



Hill, Mr. Arthur W. 

 Porter, Professor J. B. 

 Reid, Dr. Archdall. 

 Stansfield, Mr. Herbert. 

 Young, Dr. George. 

 Young, Dr. W. H. 



