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Anthropology, Botany,--and. Agriculture this proportion might he 
increased to one-half. 
Special Membership Terms in Australia.—At the same meeting of 
Council the General Treasurer brought forward proposals (which had 
been referred to the Council by the General Committee Meeting at 
Birmingham) regarding the cost. of membership subscriptions for 
persons joining locally in Australia. These proposals, which were 
adopted, laid down that for persons attending meetings in any two 
or more centres the price of membership tickets should remain un- 
altered, but that for persons attending at any one centre only the price 
of new annual membership should be £1 only, including the right to 
receive the annual volume free, and that there should be an Associate’s 
fee of 10s., at Adelaide and Brisbane only. The main reason for these 
special arrangements lay in the fact that at no one centre in Australia 
would there be undertaken the equivalent of a complete programme of 
a meeting under normal conditions. Any ticket issued in Australia to 
a lady was made transferable to another lady under the same con- 
ditions as those under which it was issued. That these concessions 
were appreciated was proved by the very large local membership en- 
rolled, to which reference is made later in this narrative. 
Visit of the Australian General Organising Secretary to England.— 
During the period from July to December 1913, during which the 
majority of the arrangements hitherto discussed were undertaken, the 
home officers and Council had the benefit of the presence and collabora- 
tion of the Australian Organising Secretary, Dr. A. C. D. Rivett, who 
was sent on a special mission to England in connection with the 
arrangements. During his visit he was able to attend the Meeting of the 
Association in Birmingham in September 1918, and thus to obtain a 
full knowledge of the details of organisation under normal conditions. 
He was also able to become personally acquainted with a large pro- 
portion of the intending visitors to Australia. For the rest, he worked 
in intimate relationship with the Assistant Secretary at the London 
Office, and together they traversed, so far as possible, the whole field 
of the organisation, with the guidance and approval of the General 
Officers, the Committee, and the Council. The sum of their dis- 
cussions was finally embodied in a memorandum, dealing in detail with 
such topics as the arrangements to be made for the reception of the 
party on arrival at each centre, with the character and method of 
distributing to each member information lists advising of these arrange- 
ments and directions as to transport, with the handling of baggage, 
and in connection with this, and for other purposes, the allocation of a 
distinguishing number to each individual member of the Overseas Party, 
with the fitting and organisation of service in the Reception Rooms, 
with the requirements of the Sections, with the division of work between 
the London and the local offices in regard to the issue of tickets, pro- 
erammes and other matter, and so forth. They also endeavoured to 
define the various topics on which they would have to exchange in- 
formation by mail during the period January to June 1914 (i.e., after 
Dr. Rivett’s return to Australia), and in some instances the particular 
