REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. cxix 



REPORT OP THE COUNCIL, 1909-1910. 



I. The Council resolved to present the following Address to His 

 Majesty the King on his accession to the Throne: — 



To the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 



May it please Your Majesty, — We, the President and Council of the 

 British Association for the Advancement of Science, most respectfully 

 desire to be permitted to express to Your Majesty our deepest sympathy 

 in the great loss which Your Majesty and the Empire have sustained 

 in the death of your august Father, King Edward VII. 



The British Association bears in grateful remembrance the fact that 

 your illustrious Grandfather, His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, 

 to whose scientific knowledge and wise guidance the nation owes much, 

 accepted the office of President of the Association for the Meeting held 

 at Aberdeen in 1859. We would also gratefully record that more 

 recently your Father, the late King, was pleased, in 1904, to accede 

 to the request that he should honour the Association by becoming its 

 Patron. 



We beg to be permitted to offer to Your Majesty the humble expres- 

 sion of our sincere congratulation and loyal homage and devotion on 

 your succession to the Throne of your Ancestors, and we confidently 

 hope that the progress of Science during the reign of Your Majesty will 

 continue to promote the prosperity of your people throughout the 

 Empire. 



Signed on behalf of the Council, 



J. J. Thomson, 



President. 



To this Address the following reply was received : — 



Home Office, Whitehall : June 30th, 1910 

 Sib, — I am commanded by the King to convey to you hereby His 

 Majesty's thanks for the loyal and dutiful Address of the President and 

 Council of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 

 expressing their sympathy with His Majesty on the occasion of the 

 lamented death of his late Majesty King Edward the Seventh, and con- 

 gratulation on His Majesty's Accession to the Throne. 



I am, Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 

 (Signed) Winston S. Churchill. 

 Sir J. J. Thomson, F.R.S. 



The Council further desired the President to forward the following 

 letter : — 



Lieut. -Col. Sir Arthur J. Bigge, K.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., &c, &c. 



Sir,— I have the honour to inform you that the Council of the 

 British Association for the Advancement of Science have voted a humble 

 Address of sympathy and congratulation to His Majesty the King. 



The Address refers gratefully to the honour which King Edward VII. 

 conferred upon the Association by becoming its Patron in 1904. The 



