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REPORT — 1895. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



BeiJort of the Council for the Year 1894-95, presented to the General 

 Committee at Tpsioich on Wednesday, September 11, 1895. 



The Report of the Council for 1894-5 was considered and ordered 

 to be presented to the General Committee : — 



The Council have received reports from the General Treasurer 

 during the past year, and his accounts from July 1, 1894, to June 29, 

 1895, which have been audited, will be presented to the General 

 Committee. 



The Council have nominated the Mayor of Ipswich, J. H. Bartlet, 

 Esq., M.D., Vice-President of the Association. 



The invitation to hold the Annual Meeting of the Association at 

 Toronto in 1897 has been renewed, and will be brought before the 

 General Committee on Monday. 



The election by the General Committee of Sir Douglas Galton as 

 President of the Association for the year which begins to-day, deprives 

 us for the future of his services as General Secretary. The Council desire 

 to record their grateful sense of the unfailing zeal and energy which Sir 

 Douglas Galton has displayed in the affairs of the Association during a 

 tenure of office which has extended over twenty-four years. The Council 

 have consequently had to consider the appointment of a successor, and 

 desire now to nominate Professor E. A. Schiifer, F.R.S., for election to the 

 office of General Secretary. Professor Schafer has been communicated 

 with, and has expi-essed his willingness to serve. 



In accordance with a request received from the Lords of the Committee 

 of Council on Education, who have been asked to send Delegates to the 

 International Congress of Zoology at Leyden, the Council resolved to 

 nominate Sir W. H. Flower to represent the Association. 



The Council have elected the following Foreign Men of Science Cor- 

 responding Members : — 



Prof. F. Beilstein, St. Petersburg. 



Prof. Edouard van Beneden, Li^ge. 



Prof. J. S. Billings, Deputy Surgeon- 

 General, Washington. 



Prof. D. H. Campbell, University Palo 

 Alto, California. 



M. Cartailhac, Toulouse. 



Dr. A. Chauveau, Paris. 



Prof. T. W.W. Engelmann, Utrecht. 



Dr. Wilhelm Forster, Berlin. 



Prof. Leon Fredericq, Lilge. 



Prof. C. Friedel, Paris. 



Prof. Ludimar Hermann, Konigsberg. 



Prof. Dr. J. Kollmann, Basle. 



M. MaximeKovalevsky, Beaulieu-sur-Mer. 



Resolutions referred to the Council for consideration and action if 

 desirable : — 



Prof. L. Kny, Berlin. 



Dr. Otto Maa.s, Munich. 



Prof. A. M. Mayer, Hoboken, New Jersey. 



Prof. Gosta Mittag-Leffler, Stockholm. 



Dr. Edmund von Mojsisovics, Vienna. 



Prof. E. Nasini, Padua. 



Prof. H. F. Osborn, Columbia College, 

 New York. 



Baron C. R. Osten-sacken, Heidel- 

 berg. 



Prof. Wilhelm Pfeffer, Leipzig. 



Prof. P. H. Schoute, Groningen. 



Prof. E. Strasbnrger, Bonn. 



General F. A. Walker, Boston. 



