684 NARRATIVE AND ITINERARY 
Home ORGANISATION. 
The Home ‘ Australian Committee..—By the time of the Dundee . 
Meeting, 1912, an outline programme of the Australian Meeting was 
in being, and in the subsequent session of the Council Australian 
arrangements began to find an important place. In November 1912 
the Council appointed a Committee, ‘ to assist the President and General 
Officers in matters regarding the Meeting in Australia,’ consisting of 
Professors A. Dendy, J. W. Gregory, A. Liversidge, and E. Rutherford, 
to whom were subsequently added Professor W. Bateson and Professor 
C. J. Martin, while from October 1913 onward the Sectional Presidents 
appointed for the Meeting were also taken into consultation. This 
‘ Australian Committee’ held fourteen meetings between December 1912 
and March 1914. As has been indicated, its principal work was the 
allocation of grants out of the Commonwealth Fund towards the overseas 
expenses of Members. It was known to be the view of the Australian 
authorities that the invited representative Members should be involved 
in as little expense as possible beyond incidentals, and therefore it was 
determined that grants should be made at a uniform rate of £100 (the 
reduced return fare, first class, by the Suez route, excepting certain 
special cases, such as that of invited members travelling from coun- 
tries less distant than the United Kingdom from Australia, to whom 
smaller grants were made. By February 1913 the Council had 
already determined the names of a majority of the Sectional Presi- 
dents whom it was intended to appoint for the Australian Meeting; 
the names of certain other official and leading members of the ‘ Overseas 
Party ’ (as it came to be termed) for that Meeting were already known, 
and the Committee was thus able to allocate some part of the grants 
forthwith. It then became essential that the Committee should be 
informed how far the demand for grants was likely to exceed the supply. 
In June 1913, therefore, members of the General Committee were asked 
whether they would join the invited party if grants were offered them; 
selection was found to be necessary from the list of names thus 
obtained, and this task occupied the Committee during the ensuing 
autumn, from the time of the Birmingham Meeting onward, while 
later on it became possible to draw upon outstanding names in order 
to fill vacancies which from time to time, through various individual 
causes, occurred in the ‘ grantee’ list. No grant was left unfilled. 
Foreign and Dominions Representatives.—Before leaving the 
subject of the selection of the invited Members, reference may be made 
to the invitation of representatives from foreign countries, the United 
States of America, and British overseas Dominions other than Australia. 
It was the wish of the Australian authorities (as appears from the cable- 
gram quoted above) that the Overseas Party should include such repre- 
sentatives; the list of Members of the Association (especially that of 
Honorary Corresponding Members) supplied in itself a wide field for 
invitation ; in addition, other names were suggested by the executives in 
the various States of the Commonwealth, and others, again, by the 
representatives of the various Sections of the Association on the Com- 
mittee at home. It will be readily understood that the number of 
