xliv REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
IX. In accordance with Recommendations received by the General 
Committee at Portsmouth and referred to the Council, it was agreed 
that the following Committees be authorised to receive contributions 
from scurces other than the Association :— 
‘To aid Investigators ...to carry on... work at the 
Zoological Station at Naples.’ (Section D.) 
‘To conduct Explorations with a view to ascertaining the Age 
of Stone Circles.’ (Section H.) 
‘To investigate the Physical Characters .of the Ancient 
Egyptians.’ (Section H.) 
X. The Council, having been made aware of an opinion, held in 
various quarters, that more lectures than the one hitherto given to 
ihe operative classes should be provided for the public at places of 
meeting, have on the present occasion arranged three public lectures, 
open to those who have not joined the Association, at the request of 
the Local Executive Committee in Dundee. 
XI. The Council have had under consideration :— 
(a) An instruction to the General Officers from the General 
Committee at Portsmouth, to inquire into the possibility of 
improving the means of obtaining abstracts of papers 
previously to their reading ; 
(b) A motion to inquire as to whether the publication of the 
Annual Volume confers a benefit to science in any way 
commensurate with its cost; 
(c) The report of a Committee appointed by the Council. This 
report brought to the notice of the Council, inter alia, the 
increase which has recently taken place in ruling prices for 
printing. 
The Council, after full inquiry, have, with the above considerations 
in view, given certain instructions to the Officers as to the contents and 
arrangement of the Volume, and as to the issue of printed matter at 
Annual Meetings. 
XII. The following Nominations are made by the Council :— 
Conference of Delegates.—Professor F. O. Bower (Chairman), 
Mr. H. W. T. Wager (Vice-Chairman), Mr. W. P. D. Stebbing (Secre- 
tary). 
Corresponding Societies Committee—Mr. W. Whitaker (Chair- 
man), Mr. W. P. D. Stebbing (Secretary), Rev. J. O. Bevan, Sir 
Edward Brabrook, Dr. J. G. Garson, Principal E. H. Griffiths, Dr. 
A. C. Haddon, Mr. T. V. Holmes, Mr. J. Hopkinson, Mr. A. L. 
Lewis, Mr. F. W. Rudler, Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, and the President 
and General Officers of the Association. 
XIII. The Council have received reports from the General Treasurer 
during the past year. His Accounts from July 1, 1911, to June 30, 
1912, have been audited and are presented to the General Committee. 
