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the past year, and his accounts from July 1, 1903, to June 30, 1904, 
have been audited and are presented to the General Committee. 
The Council having been informed by Dr. G. Carey Foster that he 
does not intend to offer himself for re-election as General Treasurer at 
the Cambridge meeting, desire to put on record an expression of their 
high appreciation of the value of the services rendered to the Association 
by him, and their great regret that he feels it needful to resign. 
The Council recommend that Professor John Perry, F.R.S., be 
appointed General Treasurer in succession to Dr. G. Carey Foster. The 
confirmation of this recommendation will cause a vacancy on the Council. 
In accordance with the regulations the retiring members of the Council 
will be as follows :—By seniority, Dr. J. Scott Keltie, Mr. L. L. Price, 
and Professor W. A. Tilden ; by least attendance, Professor G. B. Howes 
and Sir J. Wolfe-Barry (resigned in November last). 
The Council recommend the re-election of the other ordinary members 
of the Council, with the addition of the gentlemen whose names are dis- 
tinguished by an asterisk in the following list :— 
Abney, Sir W., K.C.B., F.B.S. *Higgs, Henry, Esq., LL.B. 
Armstrong, Professor H. E., F.RS. *Langley, Professor J. N., F.R.S. 
Bonar, J., Esq., LL.D. Macalister, Professor A., l’.R.S. 
Bourne, G. C., Esq., D.Sc. McKendrick, Professor J.G., F.R.S. 
Bower, Professor F. O., F.R.S. *Mackinder, H. J., Esq., M.A. 
Brabrook, E. W., Esq., C.B. Noble, Sir A., Bart., K.C.B., F.8.S. 
*Brown, Dr. Horace T., F.B.S. Perkin, Professor W. H., F.R.S. 
Callendar, Professor H. L., F.RS.. Seward, A. C., Esq., F.R.S. 
Cunningham, Professor D. J., F.R.S. *Shaw, Dr. W.N., F.RB.S. 
Darwin, Major L., Sec. R.G.S. *Shipley, A. E., Esq., F.R.S. 
Gotch, Professor F., F.R.S. Watts, Professor W. W., F.B.S. 
Haddon, Dr. A. C., F.R.S. Woodward, Dr. A. Smith, F.R.S. 
_ Hawksley, C., Esq., M.Inst.C.E. 
The following claims for admission to the General Committee have 
been allowed by the Council :— 
8. Monckton Copeman, M.D., F.R.S. 
F. W, Edridge-Green, M.D., F.R.C.S. 
William J. 8. Lockyer, Ph.D. 
John Morrow, M.Sc. 
A. B. Rendle, M.A., D.Sc. 
Alfred R, Sennett. 
