xlii REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
doubt to express their definite intentions by a certain date; (c) that 
the General Officers should be empowered to take, in the name of the 
Council, any other measures which might appear necessary to effect 
a reduction in the total number of the oversea party. 
(ii) Previously to the departure of Dr. A. C. D. Rivett, General 
Organising Secretary in Australia, from London in December 1913, it 
was resolved that the thanks of the Council be expressed to Dr. Rivett 
for the assistance he had rendered in connection with the arrangements 
for the meeting during his visit to England; and to the authorities in 
Australia under whose direction he had paid this visit. 
VII. The Council resolved that the meetings of the Conference of 
Delegates of Corresponding Societies be held in Havre in August 1914 
on the occasion of the meeting there of L’Association Francaise pour 
l’Avancement des Sciences. 
In these circumstances the Council made the following appoint- 
ments on behalf of the General Committee (in place of nominations, 
as usual) :— 
Conference of Delegates —Sir H. G. Fordham (Chairman), Sir 
EK. Brabrook (Vice-Chairman), Mr. W. Mark Webb (Secretary). 
The following nominations are made by the Council :— 
Corresponding Societies Committee—Mr. W. Whitaker (Chair- 
man), Mr. W. Mark Webb (Secretary), Rev. J. O. Bevan, Sir Edward 
Brabrook, Sir H. G. Fordham, Dr. J. G. Garson, Principal E. H. 
Griffiths, Dr. A. C. Haddon, Mr. T. V. Holmes, Mr. J. Hopkinson, 
Mr, A. L. Lewis, Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, and the President and 
General Officers of the Association. 
VIII. The Council have received an intimation from the Town 
Clerk of Cardiff that the Council and other authorities in that city 
intend to present an invitation to the Association to hold there its 
Meeting in 1918. 
IX. The Council have received reports from the General Treasurer 
during the past year. In consequence of the early removal of the books, 
&c., from London to Australia, it has not been possible to prepare the 
usual annual accounts. These will be audited and presented to the 
General Committee at the Manchester Meeting (1915). 
X. The retiring members of the Council are:— 
Sir D. Prain, Prof. C. S. Sherrington, Prof. F. T. Trouton, 
Dr. J. E. Marr, Prof. J. B. Farmer. 
The Council nominated the following new members :— 
Dr. F. W. Dyson, 
Miss E. R. Saunders, 
Prof. E. H. Starling, 
leaving two vacancies to be filled by the General Committee without 
nomination by the Council. 
