REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. xlix 
Steps are being taken in pursuance of this Resolution. 
The Council have had under their consideration the advisability of laying 
down some systematic rule to govern the election of Members of Council, 
and they recommend to the General Committee the adoption of the following 
regulations, which are in reality little more than a definite expression of the 
general practice of past years :— 
(1) The Council shall consist of 
1. The Trustees. 
2. The past Presidents. 
3. The President and Vice-Presidents for the time being. 
4, The President and Vice-Presidents elect. 
5. The past and present General Treasurers, General and Assistant 
General Secretaries. 
6. The Local Treasurer and Secretaries for the ensuing Meeting. 
7. Ordinary Members. 
(2) The Ordinary Members shall be elected annually from the General 
; Committee. 
(3) There shall be not more than twenty-five Ordinary Members, of whom 
not more than twenty shall have served on the Council, as Ordi- 
nary Members, in the previous year. 
(4) In order to carry out the foregoing rule, the following Ordinary Mem- 
bers of the outgoing Council shall at each ‘annual election be 
ineligible for nomination :—Ilst, those who have served on the 
Council for the greatest number of consecutive years; and, 2nd, 
those who, being resident in or near London, have attended the 
- fewest number of Meetings during the year—observing (as nearly 
as possible) the proportion of three by seniority to two by least 
attendance. 
(5) The Council shall submit to the General Committee in their Annual 
Report the names of the Members of General Committee whom 
they recommend for election as Members of Council. 
(6) The Election shall take place at the same time as that of the Officers of 
the Association. : 
In order to assist the consideration of this question, the Council have 
appended to this Report a list of the Ordinary Members of Council, showing 
the date of election in each case. 
The Council have added the following list of names of gentlemen present at 
the last Meeting of the Association to the list of Corresponding Members :— 
Il Signor Guido Cora. Dr. A. Shafarik, Prague. 
Dr. Felix Klein. Professor J. Lawrence Smith, Louis- 
Baron von Richthofen, Berlin. ville, U.S. 
In consequence of the Nomination to the Presidency of Section D of 
Professor Redfern, who was appointed Local Secretary by the General 
Committee at the last Meeting at Bradford, the Council have nominated 
Professor G. Fuller to be a Local Secretary. 
The Council have to announce that Mr. W. Spottiswoode has notified to 
them that he is unable to continue to hold the office of General Treasurer. 
The Council have received this announcement with great regret, a regret 
which they feel will be shared by the Association. Mr. Spottiswoode has 
occupied the post of General Treasurer for the last thirteen years, and has 
invariably promoted the interests of the Association with untiring zeal and 
ability. 
1874. d 
