REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. ‘sli 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1912-15. 
I. The Council have to record their profound sorrow at the death of 
Sir Wiliam H. White, K.C.B., F.R.S., President-Elect. A resolution 
expressing their deep sympathy with the members of his family was 
conveyed to Lady White by the President. 
The Association was represented at the funeral by Professor E. A. 
Schifer, President, Major P. A. MacMahon, General Secretary, and a 
number of Members of the Council and others. 
II. A Resolution expressing the Council’s sympathy and deep sense of 
loss at the death of Sir George Darwin, F.R.S., ex-President, was conveyed 
to the members of his family ; and the Association was represented at the 
funeral by Major P. A. MacMahon, General Secretary. 
II. A Resolution expressing the Council’s regret and sympathy at the 
death of the Rt. Hon. Lord Avebury, F.R.S., ex-President and Trustee of 
the Association, was conveyed to the members of his family. 
IV. Sir H. A. Miers, F.R.S., was appointed-to represent the Association 
at the International Geological Congress at Toronto in August, 1913. 
VY. Proressor W. Bateson, F.R.S., has been unanimously nominated 
by the Council to fill the office of President of the Association for 1914 -15 
(Australian Meeting). 
VI. (a) The arrangements for the Australian Meeting have occupied 
the attention of a Committee appointed by the Council to assist the 
President and General Officers, and are progressing favourably. Draft 
programmes have been prepared, furnishing details of the arrangements 
proposed. 
(6) The Council have considered what alterations, if any, it may be 
necessary to make in the transaction of business at the Australian meeting 
in consequence of the exceptional distance. They recommend that the 
General Committee hold only two meetings in Australia (following the 
precedent of previous oversea meetings), and are of opinion that it will 
probably be found most convenient to hold these at Adelaide and Brisbane, 
the Committee of Recommendations being held at Sydney during the 
intervening period: they further recommend that a third meeting of the 
General Committee should be held in London, after the Australian meeting, 
if necessary for the consideration of outstanding business. 
(c) The Committee appointed to advise the Council in respect of any 
action to be taken in connection with the proposed exploration in Oceania 
in 1914 was authorised to approach the Secretary to the Admiralty, and 
subsequently the Federal Government through the High Commissioner for 
Australia, on behalf of the Council, and negotiations and inquiries are 
proceeding. 
(2) A letter has been received from Dr. A. Loir, of Havre, Local Secretary 
for the Meeting of the French Association for the Advancement of Science 
in Havre in 1914, intimating that the municipality of Havre desires to 
invite as guests leading Members of the British Association who do not 
