REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



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Service ; for, as a rule, examinations are restricted to the first entry, and 

 are not imposed on persons proceeding from a lower grade to a higher. 



' It is also worthy of mature consideration whether the present is a 

 favourable juncture for pressing on the Government a more rigid demand 

 for economic knowledge from its servants, when the science itself is the 

 subject of keen contention, and two schools of thought, diametrically 

 opposed to each other, have arisen, to some extent in this country, and to 

 a much greater extent on the Continent. 



'The Committee, in view of these considerations, recommend that any 

 further action on this matter be postponed.' 



This report was adopted by the Council. 



The report of the Corresponding Societies Committee for the past 

 year, consisting of the list of the Corresponding Societies, and the titles 

 of the more important papers, and especially those referring to Local 

 Scientific Investigations, published by those Societies during the year 

 ending June 1, 1895, has been received. 



The account of the Conference of Delegates at Oxford has, in accord- 

 ance with a resolution of the Council, been published in the Rej^ort for 

 1894. 



The Corresponding Societies Committee, consisting of Mr. Francis 

 Galton, Professor R. Meldola, Sir Douglas Galton, Sir Rawson Rawson, 

 Dr. J. G. Garson, Sir J. Evans, Mr. J. Hopkinson, Mi-. W. Wbitaker, 

 Mr. G. J. Symons, Professor T. G. Bonney, Mr. T. V". Holmes, Professor 

 E. B. Poulton, Mr. Cuthbert Peek, and the Rev. Canon Tristram, is 

 hereby nominated for re- appointment by the General Committee. 



The Council nominate Mr. G. J. Symons, F.R.S., Chairman, Dr. J. G. 

 Garson Vice-Chairman, and Mr. T. V. Holmes, Secretary, to the Confer- 

 ence of Delegates of Corresponding Societies to be held during the meeting 

 at Ipswich. 



In accordance with the regulations the retiring members of the 

 Council will be : — ■ 



Professor E. Ray Lankester. 

 Professor G. D. Liveing. 

 Mr. W. H. Preece. 



Professor A. W. Reinold. 

 Professor J. J. Thomson, 



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

 of the Council, with the addition of the gentlemen whose names are dis- 

 tinguished by an asterisk in the following list : — 



Anderson, Dr. W., F.R.S. 

 Ayrton, Professor W. E., F.R.S. 

 Baker, Sir B., K.C.M.G., F.R.S. 

 Boys, Professor C. Vernon, F.R.S. 

 Kdgeworth, Professor F. Y., M.A. 

 Evans, Sir J., K.C.B., F.R.S. 

 Foxwell, Professor H. S., M.A. 

 *Harcourt, Professor L. F. Vernon, 

 M.A., M.Inst.C.E. 

 Herdman, Professor W. A., F.R.S 

 Horsley, Professor Victor, F.R.S. 

 Lodge, Professor Oliver J., F.R.S. 

 Markham, Clements E., Esq., C.B., 



F.R.S. 

 Meldola, Professor R., F.R.S. 



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♦Poulton, Professor E. B., F.R.S. 



Ramsay, Professor W., F.R.S. 



Reynolds, Professor J. Emerson, M.D., 



F.R.S. 

 *Shaw, W. N., Esq., F.R.S. 



Symons, G. J., Esq., F.R.S. 



Teall, J. J. H., Esq., F.R.S. 

 *Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Esq., C.M.G., 



F.R.S. 

 ♦Thomson, Professor J. M., F.R.S.E. 



Tlnwin, Professor W. C, F.R S. 



Vines, Professor S. H., F.R.S. 



Ward, Professor Marshall, F.R.S. 



Whitaker, W., Esq., F.R.S. 



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