Hi iiEPOiiT — 1872. 



la accovdauce with the rocommendatiou of this Committee the Coaucil 

 adopted the following Resolution : — 



That, having had under consideration the requests which the Committee 

 of Masters of Schools have made to the Universities of Oxford and 

 Cambridge upon points in which the Education of the Universities 

 and Schools came into contact, the Council of the British Association 

 recommend that Arithmetic, and cither Elementary Physics or Che- 

 mistry experimentally treated, be introduced into the Leaving Exa- 

 minations as compulsory subjects. 



That the Head-Masters of Public Schools be requested to furnish 

 the Council with information about the present position of Science- 

 teaching in their Schools. 



and the Council have communicated thereon with the Universities of Oxford 

 and Cambridge, but at present no decision respecting " Leaving Examinations " 

 has been arrived at in these Universities. 



In accordance with the terms of the resolution passed by the General 

 Committee last year, appointing a Committee on Science Lectures and Orga- 

 nization, the action proposed to be taken by this Committee in the following 

 resolutions, was referred to the Council and sanctioned. 



1. That a Subcommittee, consisting of Dr. Carpenter, Prof. Williamson, 

 Prof. W. G. Adams, Dr. Hirst, Mr. Geo. Griffith, Di. Michael Foster, and 

 Prof. E.oscoe be appointed for one year for the purpose of preparing a list 

 of Lecturers for the consideration of this Committee, and of communicating 

 with the various towns with the view of establishing a system of Science 

 Lectures throughout the countiy. 



2. That the names of the proposed Lecturers be selected (with their 

 consent) from amongst the Members of the General Committee of the 

 Association, or from amongst the Graduates of any University in the 

 United Kingdom ; and that the subjects ixpon which the Lectures be de- 

 livered shall be such as are included in one or other of the Sections of the 

 Association. 



The Committee have drawn up a Report, dealing generally with the sub- 

 ject of their inquiry, which the Council recommend should be referred to tho 

 Committee of Recommendations. 



The Council have had under consideration tlie question of enabling 

 Members, who are unable to be present at tho Meetings, to obtain the 

 Journal and other Printed Papers, and they have adopted a Regulation as 

 follows : — ■ 



The Journal, President's Address, and other Printed Papers issued by the 

 Association during the Annual Meeting will be forwarded daily to Members 

 and others, on application and prepayment of 2s. Gd. to the Clerk of the 

 Association, on or before the first day of the Meeting. 



The Council regret to have to announce that the state of health of 

 Dr. Thomas Thomson renders him unable to continue to act as one of the 

 General Secretaries of tlie Association after the present Meeting. They 

 cannot refrain from expressing their great regret at the loss of his valuable 

 services. 



The Council have agreed to recommend that Professor Michael Foster, 

 F.R.S., be appointed one of the Genei-al Secretaries in his place, and his 

 name will be proposed to the General Committee at the Meeting for the 

 Election of the Council aud Officers on Monday next. 



The Council have added the following names of gentlemen," present 



