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(g) A pi-oposal from the Conference of Delegates, that the Board 

 of Education should be asked to hold an enquiry on the teaching of 

 geography, was referred to Section E. 



(Ii) The General Officers, on the instruction of the General Com- 

 mittee, forwarded resolutions urging upon H.M. Government the 

 necessity for supporting an organised scheme of scientific research to 

 the Prims Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of 

 the Admiralty, the Secretary of State for War, the President of the 

 Board of Trade, the Food Controller, and the Minister of Health. 



The Council have received from the Admiralty and from the War 

 Office infonnation on proposals for research. At the invitation of the 

 Master-General of the Ordnance, the General Officers attended a Con- 

 ference at the War Office, at which the Master-General, Lieut. -General 

 Sir J. P. Du Cane, the Quartermaster-General, Lieut. -General Sir T. E. 

 Clarke, and the Director of Medical Sei'vices, Lieut. -General Sir T. 

 Goodwin, explained the organisation which has been adopted for scien- 

 tific research in connection with military services. 



III. The Council nominated as their representatives on the Joint 

 Committee of the General Committee and Council on Grants, under 

 the chairmanship of the President (Sir C. Parsons), Profs. W. A. 

 Herdman, J. Peny, H. H. Turner, and J. L. Myres. This Committee 

 was directed to report to the General Committee as well as to the 

 Council, and its report, which the Council has approved, is appended : 



The Committee would favour the following procedure: That Ee- 

 search Committees proposed by the Sectional Committees of the British 

 Association and approved by the Committee of Eecommendations be 

 recommended by the Council for support by the Department of Scien- 

 tific and Industrial Eesearch, the Medical Eesearch Board, or other 

 bodies entrusted with the distribution of public funds, and that all Com- 

 mittees, the work of which may be aided by such bodies, remain 

 Committees of the Association responsible as before to the Sectional 

 Committees. 



IV. The Council resumed consideration (deferred owing to the War) 

 oif certain resolutions JreferreSd to th^em by the General 'Qommibtee 

 in Australia in 1914. 



(a) The Council forwarded to the Australian Government a resolu- 

 tion urging the need for legalising in Australia the metric system of 

 weights and measures as an alternative (optional) system. (Eesolution 

 of Section A.) 



(b) The Council found it inexpedient to forward a resolution propos- 

 ing a gravity survey in Australia. (Eesolution of Section C.) 



