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DEPORT 1893. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



Beport of the Council for the year 1892-93, presented to the General 

 Committee at Nottingham on Wednesday, September 13, 1893. 



The Council have received reports from the General Treasurer during 

 the past year, and his account from July 1, 1892, to June 30, 1893, 

 which has been audited, will be presented to the General Committee. 



Invitations to hold the Annual Meeting of the Association at Bourne- 

 month or at Ipswich in 1895 have been received, and will be brought 

 before the General Committee on Monday ; communications in reference 

 to future Meetings of the Association have been received from Liverpool 

 and Toronto. 



The Council have been informed that Mr. Arthur P. Johnson, one of 

 the Local Secretaries, having accepted an official appointment in London, 

 was obliged to resign his office, and that Mr. Arthur Williams has 

 allowed himself to be nominated Secretary in his place. 



The Council have elected the following Foreign Men of Science, who 

 attended the Meeting at Edinburgh, Corresponding Members : — 



Dr. Svante Arrhenius, Stockholm. 

 Prof. Marcel Bertrand, Paris. 

 Prof. F. Blfving, Helsingfors. 

 Prof. L6o Errera, Brussels. 

 Prof. G. Fritsch, Berlin. 



Mr. D. C. Gilman, Baltimore. 

 Dr. C. E. Guillaume, Sevres. 

 Prof. Rosenthal, Erlangen. 

 Dr. Maurits Snellen, Utrecht. 



Resolutions referred to the Council for consideration and action if 

 desirable : — 



(«) That the Council be requested to draw the attention of the Local Govern- 

 ment Board to the desirability of the publication of the ' Report on the 

 Examination into Deviations from the Normal amongst 50,000 Children in 

 various Schools,' which has been presented to that Board by the British 

 Medical Association. 



The Council resolved that a letter should be addressed to the President 

 of the Local Government Board in the sense of this resolution : — 



Bbitish Association foe the Advancement op Science, 

 Burlington House, London, W., 

 December 19, 1892. 

 The Right Hon. Henry Fowler, M.P., 



President of the Local Government Board. 



SiB, — The Anthropological and Biological Sections of the British Association for 



the Advancement of Science at their last meeting had brought before them the 



question of the Deviation from the Normal in Children in Elementary Schools, in 



connection with a Report drawn up by a Committee of the International Congress! 



