REPORT—1874. 
After much consideration, they have resolved to recommend Dr. A. Wil- 
liamson as Treasurer in the place of Mr. W. Spottiswoode. 
The General Committee will remember that Bristol has been selected as 
the place of Meeting for next year. The Council understand that an in- 
vitation to hold a subsequent Meeting at Glasgow will be presented to the 
General Committee. 
The Council cannot close their Report without making some mention of 
the irreparable loss which the Association has sustained in the death of the 
late Professor Phillips. 
He, in conjunction with Dean Buckland, Canon Vernon Harcourt, and 
others, founded the Association in 1831, and, from that time until his death, 
his labours on its behalf were untiring. 
He acted as Local Secretary at the first Meeting at York; he filled, from 
the following year to the year 1862, the office of Assistant General Secretary ; 
from 1862 to 1864 that of General Secretary; he was President in 1865; 
and, having seldom been absent from any of the Meetings, he presided last 
year at Bradford over the Geological Section. 
In Professor Phillips, eminence in his own branch of Science and wide 
general culture, were united with unselfish sympathetic nature, a genial 
kindly manner and with a singularly happy tact in the conduct of affairs. 
It was this rare combination of qualities which guided the Association 
through its early difficulties to the success it has at present achieved, and 
which now makes his loss felt as one which can never be filled up. 
APPENDIX, 
Ordinary Members of the Council, and the Dates of their Election. 
Elected. Elected. 
1870. Beddoe, John, M.D., F.RB.S. 1873. Maxwell, Prof. J. C., F.RB.S. 
1873. Bramwell, F. J., Esq., C.H., F.R.S. 1871. Merrifield, C. W., Esq., F.R.S. 
1870. Debus, Dr. H., F.R.S. 1870. Northcote, Right Hon. Sir 8. H. 
1872. De La Rue, W., Hsq., D.C.L., F.R.S. | 1875. Ommanney, Adm. E., C.B., F.R.S. 
1868. Hyans, John, Esq., F.R.S. 1873. Pengelly, W., Esq., F.R.S. 
1871. Fitch, J. G., Esq., M.A. 1873. Prestwich, J., Hisq., F.R.S. 
1872. Flower, Prof. W. H., F.R.S. 1873. Russell, Dr. W. J., F.R.S. 
1871. Foster, Prof. G. C., F.R.S. 1872. Sclater, P. L., Esq., F.R.S. 
1868. Galton, Francis, Hsq., F.R.S. 1871. Siemens, C. W., Esq., F.R.S. 
1871. Hirst, Dr. T. Archer, F.R.S. 1873. Smith, Prof. H. J. 8., F.R.S. 
1868. Huggins, W., Hsq., F.R.S. 1871. Strachey, Major-General, F.RS. 
1871. Jeffreys, J. Gwyn, Hsq., F.R.S. ' 1868. Strange, Lieut,-Col, A., F.R.S. 
1871. Lockyer, J. N., Hsq., F.R.S. 
