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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1911-1912. 
I. Sir Winttam H. Warts, K.C.B., F.R.S., has been unanimously 
nominated by the Council to fill the office of President of the Association 
for 1913 (Birmingham Meeting). 
II. The Association was represented at the funeral of Lord Lister 
by Sir William Ramsay (President), Professor J. Perry (General 
Treasurer), and Major P. A. MacMahon (General Secretary). 
A letter was received from the Board of Education expressing regret 
at the death of Lord Lister, and enclosing copy of a letter from the Ger- 
man Ambassador, conveying condolences ‘to the official departments 
interested, and in particular to the institutions of which the deceased 
man of science was President.’ 
_ By invitation of the Presidents of the Royal Society and the Royal 
College of Surgeons, the Council has nominated Prof. E. A. Schafer, 
President-elect, to serve upon a Committee to consider and take steps 
for the creation of a Memorial to Lord Lister. 
Sir William Ramsay has been appointed to represent the Associa- 
tion at the International Congress of Applied Chemistry in Washington, 
September 4, 1912. 
III. The following Address has been presented 
To THE PRESIDENT AND CotuNcil or THE Roya Society. 
We, the President and Council of the British Association for the 
Advancement of Science, offer our cordial congratulations to the Royal 
Society on the occasion of the celebration of the two hundred and 
fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the Society. 
_ The British Association, since its birth in 1831, has been constantly 
in close relations with the Society. The great majority, not only of 
those who took the leading parts in the foundation of the Association, 
but of those who have filled its presidential chair, besides many others 
to whose earnest co-operation the success of its annual meetings has 
been due, have been Fellows of the Society. 
We would express the hope that the Society may continue to 
prosper, and may always maintain that pre-eminent position which is 
the fitting reward of its labours. 
Signed, on behalf of the Council, 
WiniiAmM Ramsay, 
President. 
IV. The Council has received from the Secretary of State for the 
Colonies a full reply to the representations made by the Association 
in regard to the preservation of antiquities in Cyprus. The Council 
has expressed to him the thanks of the Association for the interest 
which he has shown in this matter, and its hope that the measures 
of preservation announced in his communication may have the desired 
effect. 
