civ RePoRT—1904. 
The Council have considered what alterations, if any, it wiay be desirable 
to make in the transaction of business at the South African meeting in 
consequence of the exceptional distance. They are of opinion that little 
alteration will be necessary in the custom other than that previously 
mentioned, and that no changes need be proposed in the written laws of 
the Association. There will, however, be difficulties in fixing the place of 
meeting for 1907, and the date of that in 1906, for delegates from the 
towns concerned could not be expected to attend. It may also be felt 
that members who are unable to leave the United Kingdom ought to have 
the opportunity of voting on these points, and on the election of the 
President and Officers for 1906. The Council therefore recommend that the 
General Committee hold only two meetings in South Africa, one at Cape 
Town and the other at Johannesburg, and an adjourned meeting at some 
convenient place in London on some day to be hereafter fixed towards the 
end of the month of October 1905. 
An invitation to hold the Annual Meeting of the Association in 1906 
will be presented from York. A letter has been received from the Lord 
Mayor and the Chancellor of the University of Melbourne expressing the - 
strong desire of the Colony of Victoria that a meeting of the British 
Association may be held in Melbourne at a convenient date. 
The Council nominate as additional Vice-Presidents of the Associa- 
tion for the Cambridge Meeting :— 
His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, 
K.G., LL.D., F.R.S., Chancellor of the 
University of Cambridge. 
Arthur Hall, Esq, M.A., D.L., High 
Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Hunts. 
The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Ely, 
D.D. 
The Right Hon. Lord Walsingham, 
LL.D., F.R.S., High Steward of the 
University of Cambridge. 
The Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh, D.C.L., 
LL.D., F.B.S. 
The Right Hon. Lord Kelvin, G.C.V.O., 
D.C.L., LL.D., F.B.S. 
The Right Rev. H. Montagu Butler, D.D., 
Master of Trinity. 
Mrs. Henry Sidgwick, 
Newnham College. 
J. H. Chesshyre Dalton, Esq., M.D., 
Mayor of Cambridge. 
Robert Stephenson, Esq., Chairman of the 
Cambridgeshire County Council. 
Joseph Martin, Esq., Chairman of the 
Isle of Ely County Council. 
Principal -of 
The Council nominate as Sectional Officers the various gentlemen 
whose names appear on the programme of the Cambridge Meeting. 
The Council nominate Principal E. H. Griffiths, F.R.S., Chairman, 
Dr. Tempest Anderson, Vice-Chairman, and Mr. I’, W. Rudler, Secretary 
of the Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies to be held 
during the Cambridge Meeting. 
A Report has been received from the Corresponding Societies Com- 
mittee, together with the list of the Corresponding Societies and the 
titles of the more important papers, especially of those referring to Local 
Scientific Investigations, published by the Societies during the year ending 
May 31, 1903. 
The Council nominate for election as the Corresponding Societies 
Committee for the ensuing year the following members :—Mr. 
W. Whitaker (Chairman), Mr. F. W. Rudler (Secretary), Rev. J. O. 
Bevan, Dr. Horace T. Brown, Dr. Vaughan Cornish, Principal 
EH. Griffiths, Mr. T. V. Holmes, Mr. J. Hopkinson, Professor 
R. Meldola, Dr. H. R. Mill, Mr. C. H. Read, Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, 
Professor W. W. Watts, and the General Officers of the Association. 
The Council have received reports from the General Treasurer during 
