REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1919-20. 



I. Sir T. E. Thorpe, C.B., has been unanimously nominated 

 by the Council to fill the office of President of the Association for the 

 year 1921-22 (Edinburgh Meeting). 



II. Eesolutions referred by the General Committee, at the Bourne- 

 mouth Meeting, for consideration, and, if desirable, for action, were 

 dealt with as follows : — 



(a) The Council adopted a resolution from Section D, that in the 

 case of persons applying for membership of the General Committee 

 who are not known to the Council, the matter should be referred to 

 the Organising Committee of the Section concerned. 



(b) The Council collaborated with the Conjoint Board of Scientific 

 Societies in laying before the Prime Minister, H.M. Secretaries of 

 State for the Colonies and for India, and the Governments of the 

 Australian Commonwealth and the Union of South Africa, proposals 

 for the collection and publication of scientific data relating to ex-German 

 colonies (Resolutions of Sections E and H). 



(c) The Council expressed to H.M. Government the Association's 

 approval of the proposal to establish a British Institute of Archaeology 

 in Egypt. (Resolution of Section H.) 



(d) The Council forwarded to the Board of Agriculture a represen- 

 tation on the desirability of securing the uniform description and nomen- 

 clature of ancient remains on Ordnance Survey Maps, and after 

 coiTespondence with the Director- General of the Ordnance Survey have 

 learnt that measures have been taken to this end. (Resolution of 

 Section H.) 



(e) The Council referred back to the Committee of Section I a 

 proposal that that Section should be entitled ' Physiology and 

 Psychology, ' and that the Presidents in alternate years should represent 

 the two branches of the Section. 



(/) The Council, after enquiry, felt unable to take action recom- 

 mended by the Conference of Delegates in the matter of a representa- 

 tion to H.M. Government on the use of taxes derived from motor-spirit 

 and carriages for the improvement of roads. 



