REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. xlv 



The President and General Officers, the President-Elect, Sir E. 

 Brabrook, Mr. A. D. Hall, Dr. H. S. Hele-Shaw, Professor K. Meldola, 

 and Professor 0. S. Sherrington. 



This Committee presented the following Report :— 

 The Committee recommends : — 



(a) That the Organising Committees of Sections should have power to 

 report direct to the Council at any time when the Association is not in 

 Session at its Annual Meeting. 



(b) That a Eesearch Committee should have power to send reports at 

 any time, through the Organising Committee of its Section, to the Council. 



The Committee recommends the Council to give immediate effect to this 

 arrangement, and to inform all members of Organising Sectional Committees 

 accordingly, and to call upon those Committees to meet in order to consider: — 



(a) What problems, if any, arise in their special departments of science 

 which call for investigation in the present connexion {i.e., in connexion with 

 the future effects of the war upon the national and imperial welfare). 



(b) The proper methods of investigation of such problems. 



The Committee recommends that it be reappointed, with additional members, 

 and with power to initiate questions to be submitted to the Organising Sectional 

 Committees, and to receive reports from them and transmit such reports to the 

 Council. 



The Council resolved that the Committee be reappointed with the 

 addition of Prof. W. A. Bone, Dr. Dugald Clerk, Major Lyons, and 

 Dr. A. Strahan. The Committee was empowered to consult the Organ- 

 ising Committees on the questions indicated in the Report, and it was 

 further resolved : — 



(a) That Organising Committees of Sections should have power to 

 report direct to the Council at any time when the Association 

 is not in annual session, and that it be recommended to the 

 General Committee that the Rule, chap, ix., 6 (second para- 

 graph), be amended to read as follows : — 



'Each Organising Committee shall hold . . . meetings . . . 

 for the organisation of the ensuing Sectional proceedings, and 

 may at any such meeting resolve to present a report to the 

 Council upon any matter of interest to the Section, and shall 

 hold . . . etc' 

 {b) That Research Committees should have power to report through 

 Organising Committees to the Council at any time when the 

 Association is not in annual session, and that it be recom- 

 mended to the General Committee that the Rule, chap, iv., 5, 

 be amended to read as follows :— 



' Every Research Committee shall present a report ... at the 

 Annual Meeting next after that at which it was appointed or 

 reappointed, and may in the meantime present a report 

 through a Sectional Organising Committee to the Council.' 



A number of valuable proposals, received by the Committee from the 

 Organising Sectional Committees, have been transmitted to the Council, 

 and action arising out of several of these is proceeding. 



