EEPOET OF THE COUNCIL. 



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upon this question, and they request authority to make the necessary 

 communications to foi-eign Societies. 



In regard to the resolution of the General Committee empowering the 

 Council to confer with the Royal Geographical Society on the subject of 

 the Exploration of the Snowy Mountain Range of Eastern Equatorial 

 Africa, and to contribute the sum of 100/. towards the expenses of an 

 expedition, the Council have been informed by the Council of the Royal 

 Geographical Society, in a letter dated June 26, that they have decided 

 upon undertaking the expedition, and have secured the services of the 

 well-known and experienced explorer, Mr. Thomson; the Treasurer has 

 accordingly paid the above-named contribution. 



An invitation to visit Canada in 1883, warmly supported by the 

 Governor-General, His Excellency the Marquis of Lome, was received at 

 the end of last year, but the Council were obliged to reply that the vote 

 of the General Committee at York accepting the invitation to Oxford 

 precluded them from entertaining the question for that year. With 

 reference, however, to the Meeting for 1883, the Council regret to inform 

 the General Committee that unforeseen difficulties have recently obliged 

 their intended hosts at Oxford to express a desire that the proposed visit 

 of the Association should be for a time postponed. Under these circum- 

 stances Southport and Birmingham have renewed their invitation for 

 1883, and invitations for 1884 have been received from Birmingham, 

 Southport, Aberdeen, and Nottingham. 



The Council propose that, in accordance with the regulations, the five 



retiring members shall be the foUowino- : — 



Mr. Abel. 

 Mr. J. Evans. 

 Professor G. C. Foster. 



Professor Newton. 

 General Pitt-Rivers. 



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

 of the Council, with the addition of those whose names are distinguished 

 by an asterisk in the following list : — - 



Adams, Professor W. G., F.R.S. 

 Bateman, J. P., Esq., C.B., F.R.S. 

 Cayley, Professor, F.R.S. 

 *Darwin, F., Esq., F.R.S. 

 *Dawkins, Professor W. Boyd, 



F.R.S. 

 De la Rue, Warren, Esq., F.R.S. 

 Evans, Captain Sir F. J., K.C.B., 



F.R.S. 

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

 *Gladstone, Dr. J. H., F.R.S. 

 Glaisher; J. W. L., Esq., F.R.S. 

 Harcourt, A. G.Vernon, Esq., F.R.S. 

 Hastings, G. W., Esq., M.P. 

 Hawkshaw, J. Clarke, Esq., F.G.S. 



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

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

 Hughes, Professor T. McK., F.G.S. 

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

 Pengelly, W., Esq., F.R.S. 

 Perkin, W. H., Esq., F.R.S. 

 Prestwich, Professor J., F.R.S. 

 Rayleigh, Lord, F.R.S. 

 Sanderson, Professor J. S. Burdon, 



F R S 

 *Sniith, Professor H. J. S., F.R.S. 

 Soi-by, Dr. H. C, F.R.S. 

 Thuillier, General Sir H. E. L., 



C.S.L, F.R.S. 



