KEPORT OF THE COUNCIL. CXX1 



The following were appointed to serve on the Committee : — 



The President, General Officers, and President-Elect, with 

 Prof. H. E. Armstrong. 

 Sir Edward Brabrook. 

 Sir Lauder Brunton. 

 Major P. G. Craigie. 

 Dr. J. A. Ewing. 

 Prof. J. B. Farmer. 

 Dr. G. Carey Foster. 

 Sir A. Geikie. 

 Sir D. Gill. 

 Dr. R. T. Glazebrook. 



Prof. F. Gotch. 



E. Sidney Hartland. 



Dr. J. Scott Keltie. 



Sir Oliver Lodge. 



Prof. E. B. Poulton. 



W. A. Price. 



Dr. W. N. Shaw. 



Dr. J. J. H. Teall. 



Sir T. E. Thorpe. 



Dr. A. Smith Woodward. 



The Council received the following Report from the Committee, and 

 ordered it to be transmit ted to the General Committee [note, p. cxxv.] : — 



(i) The Committee recommends: — 



Section A. — That the title of this Section be changed to 

 ' Mathematics, Physics, and Astronomy (including Cosmical 

 Physics). ' 



That the Council be recommended, when appointing the 

 President of the Section, to observe, so far as possible, a rotation 

 in the three subjects, so that Mathematics, Experimental Science, 

 and Observational Science may be represented successively in 

 the President. 



That the official recognition of the two subjects not repre- 

 sented in the President in any one year should be ensured by the 

 specific appointment of two of the Vice-Presidents of the Section 

 to act as Chairman in any deliberations carried on department- 

 ally in those subjects respectively. Departmental deliberations in 

 each of the three subjects should, as a rule, occupy two days at 

 most, the Sections sitting as a whole at other times. 



That the Secretariat remain as at present, with one Recorder 

 for the whole Section, and that one Secretary at least be a repre- 

 sentative of each subject specified in the title of the Section. 



(ii) The Committee has given careful consideration to the suggestion 

 of its Executive Sub-Committee that the subjects of Geology (now 

 Section C) and Geography (now Section E) might be combined in one 

 Section to which the Sub-Section is attached be specifically appinted 

 above for Section A. 



The Committee, while not prepared definitely to recommend the 

 combination of Geology and Geography — or of any other two Sections 

 now distinct — is of opinion that this question should receive further 

 consideration from the Council and from the General Committee. 



(iii) The Committee recommends the formation of a permanent 

 Sub-Section of Agriculture, attached to a Section to be determined by 

 the Council annually in a certain rotation (unless the Council shall see 

 reason to the contrary), e.g., as between the Sections of Chemistry, 

 Economic Science, and Botany. 



The Committee recommends that one of the Vice-Presidents of the 

 Section to which the Sub-section is attached be specifically appointed 



