i -•- " REPORT — 1876. : 



Tliird Resolution. — " That the Council ho requested to consider and 

 report upon the manner in which the Memhers of Committees and 

 other Officers of the Association shall be selected, and whether Ladies 

 shall be admitted to such offices, and if so, to what offices, and under 

 what conditions." 



Upon this Resolution the CouncU have come to the following conclusion, 

 viz. : — 



That it does not appear to have been the practice of the British 

 Association to elect Ladies as Officers of the Association, or to 

 place them upon the General. or Sectional Committees ; and they 

 are of opinion that no case has been made out for altering the 

 practice hitherto in force. 



Fourth Resolution. — " That the Council be requested to take into cou- 

 sideratiou the expediency of appointing Representatives to attend the 

 Liternational Statistical Congress to be held at Buda-Pesth in 1876." 



The Council have not taken any action on this Resolution. 



The Council regret to have to announce that Dr. Michael Poster, M.A., 

 F.R.S., is unable to continue to act as one of the General Secretaries of the 

 Association. They cannot refrain from expressing their regret at the loss of 

 his valuable services. 



The Council have agreed to recommend that Mr. Philip Lutley Sclater, 

 r.R.S., be appointed one of the General Secretaries in his place. Mr. Sclater 's 

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

 Election of the Council and Officers on Monday next. 



The Council have added to the List of the Corresponding Members of the 

 Association the names of the following gentlemen present at the last Meeting 

 of the Association, viz. : — 



Dr. ITachtigal. 

 Dr. Oppenheim. 

 Dr. E. L. Youmans. 



The Council have been informed that invitations for the Meeting to be held 

 in 1878, or following years, wiU be presented from Leeds and Dublin. 



The following are the names of Members of Council for the past year who, 

 in accordance with the regulations, are not eligible for re-election this year, 

 y\T. : — 



Mr. Bateman. 

 Professor G. C. Foster. 

 Mr. Lockyer. 



The Council recommend the re-election of the other ordinary Members of 

 Council, with the addition of the gentlemen whose names are distingiiished 

 by an asterisk in the following list : — 



Right Hon. Lyon Playfair. 

 Dr. C. W. Siemens. 



Abel, F. A., Esq., F.R.S. 

 *Alcock, Sir Rutherford, K.C.B. 



BramweU, F. J., Esq., C.E., F.R.S. 

 *Cayley, Professor, F.R.S. 



De La Rue, Warren, Esq., D.C.L., 

 F.R.S. 



Evans, J., Esq., F.R.S. 



Farr, Dr. W., F.R:S. 



Flower, Professor W. H., F.R.S, 



*Froude, W., Esq., F.R.S. 



Gassiot, J. P., Esq., D.C.L., LL.D., 

 F.R.S. 



Heywood, J., Esq., F.R.S. 

 *Houghton, Lord, F.R.S. 

 *Huggins, W., Esq., F.R.S. 



Jeffreys, J. Gwyn, Esq., F.R.S. 



Maskelj-ne, Prof. N. S.,M.A., F.R.S. 



Maxwell Professor J. Clerk, F.R.S.- 



