Vili REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
From Section K. 
That the Council be recommended to ask the Government to 
make Section K a grant of 500 reprints of a list of economic 
plant products which has been prepared by Sir David Prain, 
and is shortly to be published in the Kew Bulletin. 
It was resolved to make the above request as recommended. 
From Section L. 
The Committee of Section L has evidence that the separate issue 
of the sectional transactions has been of considerable utility 
both during and after the Meetings, and it regrets their 
discontinuance. While recognising that there are special 
difficulties as regards printing and paper at the present time, 
the Committee hope that the Council will resume next year 
the publication of the sectional transactions containing the 
President’s Address, Reports of Committees, and Abstracts 
of Papers. 
It was resolved that this expression of the Committee’s views should 
receive consideration in due course. 
IV. An informal suggestion, brought forward after consultation 
between members of the- Research Committee on Fuel Economy and 
members of the Advisory Committee of the Privy Council on Scientific 
Research, was laid before the Council, to the effect that the work of the 
Research Committee should be merged in that of a (proposed) Govern- 
ment Standing Committee. The Council approved. 
V. In view of the reduction in receipts caused by small attendance 
at the Meeting in Newcastle, an application was made to the Royal 
Society for a grant of £50 in aid of printing the Annual Volume. The 
grant was made, and a vote of thanks was conveyed from the Council to 
the Society. 
VI. The Council have received reports from the General Treasurer 
during the past year. His accounts are presented to the General Com- 
mittee, subject to audit. 
VII. The retiring members of the Council are :— 
By seniority. Dr. A. C. Haddon, Principal E. H. Griffiths. 
By least attendance.—Prof, W. H. Bragg, Prof. H. B. Dixon. 
The vacancy created by the death of Prof. Silvanus Thompson has 
not been filled during the present year. 
The Council has nominated the following new members :— 
Mr. J. H. Jeans, 
Prof. Arthur Keith, 
Prof. W. H. Perkin, 
leaving two vacancies to be filled by the General Committee without 
nomination by the Council. 
