xviii REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1921-22. 



members. The Local Executive Committee at Hull kindly supple- 

 mented the above proposal by an offer of financial support and 

 hospitality for nominees. 



The Council resolved that life compositions received on and after 

 January 1, 1922, shall be treated as capital and invested; subject that 

 on the death of any member whose life composition has been thus placed 

 to capital account, the amount of that composition shall be brought 

 mto the income account of the year. 



The Council have inidertaken, under a suitable agreement, to pay 

 the major proportion of the premiums for an endowment policy on the 

 life of Mr. O. J. E. Howarth, in order to provide him with a capital 

 sum by way of pension at age sixty-five, or his dependants with the 

 same in the event of his earlier death, so long as he remains in the 

 service of the Association. 



VII. The thanks of the Council have been conveyed to Miss A. 

 Ashley, Miss L. Grier, and Mr. A. H. Gibson for their work in 

 drawing up and preparing for publication reports on British Finance 

 and British Labour (edited by Prof. A. W. Kirkaldy, and published 

 by Messrs. Pitman). 



The Council have instituted a new series of British Association 

 reprints of selected communications, in standard paper covers. 



The Council have decided to admit advertisements into the publica- 

 tions of the Association, and arrangements have been made with an 

 advertising agency to this end. 



VIII. The retiring Ordinary Members of the Council are: — 



By seniority: Prof. W. A. Bone, Dr. A. Smith Woodward, 



Prof. W.' E. Scott. 

 By least attendance: Sir E. Hadfield, Prof. J. Stanley 

 Gardiner. 

 The Council nominated the following new members : — 

 Et. Hon. Lord Bledisloe, Dr. W. E. Hoyle, Mr. A. G. Tansley, 

 leaving two vacancies to be filled by the General Committee without 

 nomination by the Council. 



A further vacancy is created by the lamented death of Dr. W. H. E. 

 Elvers, to which I'eference has already been made. 



The full list of nominations of Ordinary Members is as follows: — 



Dr. E. F. Armstrong. 

 Dr. F. W. Aston. 

 Mr. J. Barcroft. 

 Rt. Hon. Lord Bledisloe. 

 Professor H. J. Fleure. 

 Professor A. Fowler. 

 Sir R. A. Gregory. 

 Sir Daniel Hall. 

 Sir S. F. Harmer. 

 Dr. W. E. Hoyle. 

 Mr. J. H. Jeans. 



Sir A. Keith. 

 Sir J. Scott Keltie. 

 Professor A. W. Kirkaldy. 

 Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell. 

 Sir J. E. Petavel. 

 Sir W. J. Pope. 

 Professor A. W. Porter. 

 Professor A. C. Seward. 

 Sir Aubrey Strahan. 

 Mr. A. G. Tanslev. 

 Mr. W. Whitaken 



IX. Tlie General Officers have been nominated by the Council as 

 follov/s : — 



General Treasurer, Dr. E. H. Griffiths. 



General Secretaries, Prof. J. L. Myres and Mr. F. E. Smith. 



