xiv REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, liJlD-'iO. 



(c) The Council forwarded to the AustraUan Government a resolu- 

 tion urging the early production of the Australian sheets of the Carte 

 du Monde au Millionieme. (Eesolution of Section E.) 



(d) The Council has still under consideration the proposal for the 

 establishment of Bench-marks on Coral Islands, in the Pacific. 

 (Eesolutions of Sections C and E.) 



V. The Department of Scientific and Industrial Eesearch made a 

 grant of £600 to the Association to meet the cost of cei'tain specified 

 researches foi' which Committees were appointed at the Bournemouth 

 Meeting. 



VI. The Eesearch Fund initiated at Bournemouth now amounts to 

 £1,888 16s. Qd. 



VII. Cairo Fund. — The Council made the following grants during 

 the year, additional to annual grants pi'eviously made: — 



Fuel Economy Committee (additional to grant made by 



General Committee at Bournemouth) ... ... £10 



Committee on Training in Citizenship ... ... 10 



Geophysical Committee of Eoyal Astronomical Society 10 



Conjoint Board of Scientific Societies ... ... ... 10 



VIII. Conference of Delegates and Corresponding Societies 

 Committee : — 



The following Nominations are made by the Council: — 



Conference of Delegates. — Mr. T. Sheppard (President), Mr. T. W. 

 Sowerbutts (Vice-President), Mr. W. Mark Webb (Secretary). 



Corresponding Societies Commiltee. — Mr. W. Whitaker (Chair- 

 man), Mr. W. Mark Webb (Secretary), Mr. P. J. Ashton, Dr. F. A. 

 Bather, Eev. J. 0. Bevan, Sir Edward Brabrook, Sir H. G. Fordham, 

 Mr. A. L. Lewis, Mr. T. Sheppard, Eev. T. E. Stebbing, Mr. Mark 

 L. Sykes, and the President and General Officers of the Associaition. 



On the proposal of a sub-committee of the Corresponding Societies 

 Committee the Council, in the interests of economy, propose that the 

 ■bibliography of scientific publications in the transactions of Correspond- 

 ing Societies be not printed in future in the Annual Eeport, and there- 

 lore recommend the following change in the Eules : — ■ 



EuleChap. XL, 3 (ii.): — 



"There shall be inserted in the Annual Eeport of the Association 

 a list of the papers published by the Corresponding Societies ..." 



to read as follows : — 



"A list shall be prepared of the papers published by the Corre- 

 sponding Societies. ..." 



