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attend the meeting in Australia, and that all Members not attending that 
meeting will be welcomed at the meeting of the French Association ; also 
proposing that the Conference of Delegates should meet in Havre. Informa- 
tion has also been received from Dr. Loir that a Local Committee, including 
some of the principal British residents in Havre, has been formed for the 
reception of Members of the British Association. 
It was resolved that the invitation be cordially accepted, in general 
terms, and that details of the arrangements be left to the consideration of 
the President and General Officers and a committee appointed to assist 
them. 
(e) The attention of the Council has been drawn to the question of relax- 
ing for the year 1914 (Australian Meeting) the rule under which Annual 
Members intermitting their subscriptions for one year lose thereafter the 
right to receive the Annual Report free. This question was referred by 
the General Committee at Sheffield to the consideration of the Council. 
The Council have resolved to report that they are unable to support the 
proposal to relax this rule. 
Vil. (a) The Council, having considered the question of the disposa 
of Sir J. K. Caird’s gift of 10,0001. to the Association, have resolved to 
recommend :— 
That the income remain in the hands of the Council under the 
name of ‘The Caird Fund’; and be available for allocation by the 
Council at any time for special scientific purposes. The Council are 
also of opinion that further consideration might be given hereafter 
to the question as to whether the capital or a part thereof should be 
spent on some special scheme or schemes. 
(6) The following memorial, to which were appended the signatures 
of an influential body of biologists, sixty-nine in number, has been 
received :— 
‘The biologists whose names are subscribed desire to call the atten- 
tion of the Council to the urgent importance of the maintenance of a 
table at the Zoological station at Naples for the use of British subjects. 
They consider that it is very desirable that the table which has for 
many years been known as the “ British Association Table ” should 
be given a permanent endowment, so that its maintenance should no 
longer depend upon the vote in the Committee of Recommendations 
at the yearly meetings of the Association. The Zoology Organisa- 
tion Committee will be pleased to appoint a small deputation of 
biologists to wait upon the Council to discuss the arrangements that 
should be made.’ ’ 
The Council, in consideration of the interest on Sir J. K. Caird’s gift 
accumulating during the present year, authorised the payment of 50/. to the 
Committee appointed to aid investigators to carry on work at the Zoo- 
logical Station at Naples, in addition to the grant made to the Committee 
at the Dundee Meeting. 
VIII. Resoxurions referred to the Council by the General Committee 
at Dundee :-— 
From Section A. 
“That it is desirable that a detailed Magnetic Survey of the British 
Isles, on the lines of that of Professors Riicker and Thorpe for 
