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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1921-22. 



I. Professor Sir Ernest Eutherford, F.E.S., has been unanimously 

 nominated by the Council to fill the office of President of the Associa- 

 tion for the year 1923-24 (Liverpool Meeting). 



II. The Council have to record their deep sense of the great 

 generosity of the Hon, Sir Charles Parsons, K.C.B., F.E.S., ex- 

 President, who has placed at their disposal a gift of £10,000 War 

 Stock, for the general purposes of the Association. 



Sir Charles Parsons also generously undertook to bear the cost 

 of producing and publishing The British Association: A Retrospect, 

 1831-1921, which, at his suggestion, has been compiled by Mr. 0. J. E. 

 Howarth. A copy of this work has been graciously accepted by His 

 Majesty the King, Patron of the Association. 



The thanks of the Council have beeii conveyed to Mrs. Sidney 

 Brown, for her gift of £75 as ' the John Perry's Guest Fund ' for use 

 by the General Treasurer in case of emergency connected with guests 

 of the Association, any remainder to be at the disposal of the Council 

 after five years (December 1926). 



III. Eesolutions referred by the General Committee, at the Edin- 

 burgh Meeting, to the Council for consideration and, if desirable, for 

 action, were dealt with as follows: — 



'(a) The Council welcomed the General Committee's approval of 

 their action in encouraging joint discussions between Sections. 



(b) The Council made a standing order under which research com- 

 mittees are required to present their reports in duplicate fair copy by 

 a date to be determined by the General Officers ; one copy is retained 

 for consideration by the General Officers, and the other forwarded on 

 receipt to the Eecorder of the Section concerned, who is desired, after 

 consultation with the President of his Section, to inform the Secretary 

 of the Association whether it is recommended to the General Officers 

 that the report be set up in type in advance of the meeting. (Eesolu- 

 tion of Section B.) 



(c) The Council ascertained that the special powers conferred by 

 them upon the Fuel Economy Committee were no longer required, 

 and the Committee therefore assumed the ordinary position and powers 

 of research committees. (Eesolution of Section B.) 



(d) The Council obtained from the Board of Education a statement 

 relating to Eevised Regulations for Secondary Schools, England, 1921, 

 as follows : — 



(1) The effect of Article 7 is to make it necessary that the course of work 

 s.hould be so arranged as to secure that every pupil who remains in the school 

 till the age of IG shall during his school life have passed through an adequate 

 course of graduated instruction in each one of the subjects named in the Article. 



(2) In a Circular issued in 1919 it was stated that Geography ' necessarily 

 holds, as an essential part of all proper study of history, an important place 

 in all courses belonging to Group B and Group C ; and that the definition of 

 Group C embodied in the current Regulations affords special opportunity for 



