KEPORT OF THE COU^'CIL. 



Ixxix 



An invitation to hold the ATinual Meeting of the Association at 

 Liverpool in 1896 has been received, and will be brought before the 

 General Committee on Monday ; communications in reference to tlie 

 Meeting of the Association in 1S97 have been received from Toronto. 



The Council recommend that the Mayor of Oxford, Sir W. R. Anson, 

 Warden of All Souls' College, and Pnjfessor Sylvester be elected Vice- 

 Presidents of the Association. 



The Council having been informed that Mr. L. A. Selby-Bigge, one 

 of the Local Secretaries, was obliged to resign his office, owing to his 

 having accepted the appointment of Assistant Charity Commissioner, 

 Mr. D. H. Nagel was nominated Secretary in his place. 



The Council have elected the following Foreign Men of Science 

 Corresponding Members : — 



Prof. Christian Bohr, Copenhagen. 

 Prof. W. C. Brogger, Christiania. 

 Prof. W Einthoven, Leiden. 

 Prof. Heger, Brussels. 



Dr. K. Hcrtwig, Munich. 

 Dr. Hildebrand, Stockholm. 

 M. Henri Moissan, Paris. 



Resolutions referred to the Council for consideration and action if 

 desirable : — ■ 



(1) That the recommendations regarding the times at which the Sections and 

 Sectional Committees shall meet, which have been received from tlie 

 Sectional Committees, be referred to the Council. 



The Council, having regard to the fact that the enforcement of th« 

 same hour of meeting for all Sections would be contrary to the expressed 

 wish of some of the Sections, resolved that the times of meeting of the 

 Sections and Committees be arranged by the several Organising Com- 

 mittees, and be communicated to the General Officers at least one month 

 before the Annual Meeting ; and that the times so fixed be regularly 

 adhered to throughout the Meeting on every day except Thursday and 

 Saturday, in respect of which days the hours may be settled, as at present, 

 by the Sectional Committees. If no such resolution ])e received from an 

 Organising Committee, the times of meeting will be arranged as follows : — 

 Section at 11 a.m.. Committee at 10 a.m. 



(2) That the resolution received from the Committees of Sections C and G, 

 proposing a change in the rule relating to the appointment of Committee.? 

 for special objects of science, be referred to the Council. 



The Council, having considered the question, do not recommend any 

 change in this rule. 



In consequence of the establishment of a separate Section of 

 Physiology, Animal and Vegetable, it seemed likely that papers on 

 botanical subjects might be divided between this Section and that of 

 Biology. The Council received a communicatio]i from a meeting of 

 Botanists, held last November, pointing out the inconvenience that was 

 likely to arise from such a division ; and they were asked to appoint a 

 Committee to confer with a Committee of Botanists, who would represent 

 the views of the meeting. The Council, after receiving their Committee's 

 Report, resolved to recommend to the General Committee that, instead 

 of Section D and Section I as at present constituted, there be three 

 Sections, namely Section D, Zoology ; Section I, Physiology ; and 

 Section K, Botany 



The Council also propose that the word 'Mineralogy' be omitted 

 from the title of Section B, as papers on Mineralogy are read not oily 



