REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1920-21. *%xY 
(e) Following on a resolution by Section D, supported by other 
sections, the Council communicated the following resolution to the First 
Lord of the Treasury :— 
That the Council considers that no scheme of payment of professional 
scientific men in the service of the State is satisfactory which places them on 
a lower level than that of the higher grade of the Civil Service. 
(f) Resolutions from Sections E and H in favour of the collection 
of rural lore through the agency of schools and colleges were approved 
and forwarded to the President of the Board of Education and to the 
Scottish Education Department. 
(g) A resolution from Section E, on geographical education in 
advanced courses, was approved and forwarded to the President of the 
Board of Education. 
(h) The Council forwarded to the Royal Society a resolution from 
Section E, asking that the representative of the Association on the 
National Committee on Geographical Research should be one who 
might hold office for a longer term than the President of Section E 
during his year of office (as proposed by the Society). Having ascer- 
tained the concurrence of the Society with this view, the Council 
appointed Professor J. L. Myres to represent the Association. 
_.  (t) The Council communicated with the Government of the Union 
of South Africa as to the desirability of instituting an ethnological 
bureau (Resolution of Section H), and were informed that a school of 
Bantu studies is being established in connection with the University 
_ of Cape Town. 
(7) A resolution of Section.H on the desirability of instituting an 
anthropological survey of aborigines in Western Australia was approved 
and forwarded to the Government of that State. A resolution on the 
protection of aborigines in central Australia was approved and forwarded 
to the High Commissioner for Australia, with an expression of satis- 
faction at the measures to that end which, as the Council learned, were 
already in hand. 
(k) The Council resolved to give effect to a resolution (fiom Section 
H) that associations for the advancement of science in the Dominions 
_and foreign countries should be asked to send official representatives 
to attend annual meetings of the British Association, and the Austral- 
asian, South African, American, French, Italian, and Spanish Associa- 
tions for the Advancement of Science were accordingly invited to send 
delegates to the Edinburgh meeting. 
(J) A resolution from Sections H and L, urging the extension of 
anthropometric observations as part of the medical inspection in schools, 
Was approved and forwarded to the President of the Board of Education 
and the Minister for Health. The former, however, pointed out that 
it was not possible to impose further duties upon local educational bodies 
in regard to medical inspection. 
_ (m) The Council approved the formation of Section J, Psychology. 
(n) A resolution from Section K, urging Government support for 
afforestation experiments on pit-mounds by the Midlands Afforestation 
Committee, was approved and forwarded to the Minister for Agriculture 
and to the Forestry Commission. 
