REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. lxxxi 
The Council have nominated Mr. T. H. Ismay, J.P., D.L., and Pro- 
fessor Archibald Liversidge, F.R.S., Vice-Presidents of the Association ; 
and Mr. C. Booth, jun., Assistant Local Treasurer. 
The Council had also nominated as a Vice-President of the Association 
Mr. George Holt. They deeply regret the loss which the Association has 
sustained by the death of Mr. Holt, one of the most munificent of the 
promoters of Science in the City of Liverpool. 
The Council have elected the following Foreign Men of Science Corre- 
sponding Members :— 
Professor Dr. Emil C. Hansen, Professor Ira Remsen, Baltimore. 
Copenhagen. Professor C. Runge, Hanover. 
Professor I’. Paschen, Hanover. 
An invitation to hold the Annual Meeting of the Association in 1898 
at Bristol has been received. An invitation has also been received to 
hold the Annual Meeting of the Association at Glasgow in 1898. These 
invitations will be presented to the General Committee on Monday. 
The Council received a proposal from M. Gariel, Secretary of the 
Council of the Association Francaise pour ]|’Avancement des Sciences, that 
in 1898 or 1899 the French Association should meet at Boulogne, and 
our Association at some town on the opposite coast, such as would allow 
an interchange of visits between the two Associations. This proposal was 
cordially welcomed by the Council, and inquiries were instituted as to the 
possibility of a meeting of our Association at Dover, which seemed to be 
the most suitable town on the English side of the Straits. A favourable 
report was received of the accommodation at Dover, and of the welcome 
which the Associaticn might expect ; and a reply was sent to M. Gariel 
thanking him for his suggestion, and expressing a hope that we should be 
able to do our part towards its accomplishment. Since then an invitation 
has been received from the Corporation of Dover to hold our meeting in 
1899 in that town. The Council of the French Association, which ordi- 
narily meets earlier than ours, wish to settle their place of meeting in 
1899 before the date of our meeting at Toronto. It thus becomes expe- 
dient for the General Committee to consider the invitation from Dover at 
their meeting on Monday next; and, to enable them to do so, the Council 
propose that, in the rule for fixing the place of meeting, the words ‘ not 
less than two years in advance’ be substituted for the words ‘two years 
in advance.’ If this proposal be adopted, the invitation from Dover will 
come before the General Committee on Monday next. 
The President has received from the Mayor of San Francisco the 
following resolution, which had been passed by the Board of Supervisors 
of that city :— 
‘Resolved that his honour the Mayor be, and is hereby empowered and 
requested to invite the American and Australasian Associations for the 
Advancement of Science to meet in this city in 1897 ; also, to invite the 
British Association of the same character to meet said Associations in 
this city as invited guests, and to that end to take such action as may 
be proper to arrange for their comfort and accommodation on that 
occasion. 
‘And the clerk is hereby directed to advertise this resolution as 
required by law. 
‘ Board of Supervisors, San Francisco, October 28, 1895.’ 
The President was requested by the Council to inform the Mavor of 
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