REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



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Ethnology for Greater Britain to be established in connection with the Museum, I 

 am directed by the Trustees to inform you that they are quite of opinion that such a 

 Bureau might be administered in connection with the Ethnographical Section of 

 their collections with advantage both to the objects in view of the Association and 

 to the enlargement of the British Museum collections. They are, therefore, willing 

 to accept in principle the proposal of the British Association, and they would be 

 ready to take the necessary steps for carrying it into effect so soon as certain 

 xe-arrangements affecting space, kc, which are now taking place within the Museum, 

 shall have been finished, as it is expected, in the course of the coming year. 



Believe me, yours very truly, 



E. Maunde Thompson. 

 Sir John Evans, K.C.B., D.C.L , LL.D., &c. &c. 



The Report of the Corresponding Societies ComnDittee for the past 

 year, together with the list of the Corresponding Societies and the titles 

 of the more important papers, and especially those referring to Local 

 Scientific Investigations, published by those Societies during the year 

 ending June 1, 1S98, has been received. 



The Corresponding Societies Committee, consisting of Mr. Francis 

 Galton, Professor E.. Meldola (Chairman), Sir Douglas Galton, Dr. J. G. 

 Garson, Sir J. Evans, Mr. J. Hopkinson, Mr. W. Whitaker, Mr. G. J. 

 Symons, Professor T. G. Bonney, Mr. T. V. Holmes, Sir Cuthbert E. Peek, 

 Mr. Horace T. Brown, Rev. J. O. Bevan, and Professor W. W. Watts, is 

 hereby nominated for reappointment by the General Committee. 



The Council nominate Mr. W. Whitaker, F.R.S., Chairman, and 

 Mr. T. Y. Holmes, Secretary, to the Conference of Delegates of Corre- 

 «ponding Societies to be held during the Meeting at Bristol. 



The Council announce with very great regret the loss that they have 

 recently sustained by the death of Dr. John Hopkinson, F.R.S. 



In accordance with the regulations the retiring Members of the 

 Council will be : — 



Edgeworth, Professor. 

 Horsley, Mr. Victor. 



Symons, Mr. G. J. 

 Ramsay, Professor W. 



The Council recommend the re-election of the other ordinary Members 

 of the Council, with the addition of the gentlemen whose names are dis- 

 tinguished by an asterisk in the following list : — 



Boys, C. Vernon, Esq., F.R.S. 



Creak, Captain E. W., R.N., F.R.S. 



Darwin, F., Esq., F.R.S. 



Fremantle, The Hon. Sir C. W., K.C.B. 

 -»Gaskell, Dr. W. H., F.R.S. 



Halliburton, Professor W. D., F.R.S. 



Harcourt, Professor L. F. Vernon, M.A., 

 M.Inst.C.E. 



Herdman, Professor W. A., F.R.S. 

 *Keltie, J. Scott, Esq., LL D. 

 *MacMahon, Major P. A., F.R.S. 



Marr, J. E., Esq., F.R.S. 



Meldola, Professor R., F.R.S. 



Poulton, Professor E. B., F.R.S. 



Preece, W. H., Esq., C.B., F.R.S. 

 *Price, L. L., Esq., M.A. 



Revnolds, Professor J. Emerson, M.D , 

 F.R.S. 



Shaw, W. N., Esq., F.R.S. 



Teall, J. J. H., Esq., F.R.S. 



Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Esq., C.M.G., 

 F.R.S. 



Thompson, Professor S. P., F.R.S. 



Thomson, Professor J. M., F.R.S. 

 *Tilden, Professor W. A., F.R.S. 



Tylor, Professor E. B., F.R.S. 



Unwin, Professor W. C, F.R.S. 



White, Sir W. H., K.C.B., F.R.S. 



An invitation to hold the Annual Meeting of the Association in the 

 year 1900 at Bradford, and an invitation from Cork for a future Meeting, 

 have been received, and will be presented to the General Committee on 

 Monday, September 12. 



