Ixxx REPORT—1896. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 
Report of the Council for the Year 1895-96, presented to the General 
Committee at Liverpool on Wednesday, September 16, 1896. 
Tue Councit have received reports from the General Treasurer during 
the past year, and his accounts from July 1, 1895, to June 30, 1896, 
which have been audited, will be presented to the General Committee. 
Of the Auditors appointed last year, Dr. Ludwig Mond alone was able 
to act. Dr. Thorpe was incapacitated by a severe accident, and Mr. J. 
Head was in America at the time of the audit. The President therefore 
requested Dr. Frankland to act in conjunction with Dr. Mond, which he 
consented to do. 
The Council received an invitation from the Committee charged with 
the arrangements for celebrating the Jubilee of the appointment of the 
Right Hon. Lord Kelvin as Professor of Natural Philosophy in the 
University of Glasgow, to appoint two representatives to take part in 
the celebration. 
They appointed Sir Douglas Galton, President, and Professor A. W. 
Ricker, General Treasurer, to be their representatives, and asked them to 
convey to Lord Kelvin the following letter of congratulation :— 
BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 
BURLINGTON House, LONDON, W. 
To THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD KELVIN, D.C.L., LL.D., F.B.S., &c. &c. 
My Lorp,—The Council of the British Association for the Advancement of 
Science desire to offer to you their sincere congratulations on your attainment of 
the fiftieth year of your tenure of the Professorship of Natural Philosophy in the 
University of Glasgow. 
It is unnecessary to recount the triumphs you have won during the last half- 
century in mastering the difficulties which beset the advance of scientific theory and 
experiment, and in applying scientific principles to the practical service of man. 
The record of your achievements is fresh in the minds of those who address you, and 
can never be effaced from the history of the development of Mathematical and 
Experimental Physics, of Engineering, and of Navigation. 
We would rather, therefore, recall to your recollection the long and close connec- 
tion which has existed between the British Association and yourself. 
As a regular attendant at our meetings, you have not only enriched our Trans- 
actions with many important papers, but have encouraged the efforts of younger men 
by never-failing sympathy ard interest in their work. 
You have been President of the Mathematical and Physical Section of the Asso- 
ciation no less than five times. You were President of the Association at Edinburgh 
in 1871, and are now a Life-Member of our Council. 
As colleagues, then, we wish to tell you of the pride with which we, in common 
with all your fellow-countrymen, regard your distinguished career, and of the feelings 
of personal attachment with which we express the hope that you may long be spared 
to enjoy, in health and strength, the honours you have so nobly won. 
Signed on behalf of the Council, 
DovuGLas GALTON, President. 
June, 1896, 
