Xvi REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1920-21. 
(0) The Council were unable to approve a proposal (from Section L) 
that the Organising Committee of that Section should allow a book on 
Citizenship to be published with its approval, but informed the Com- 
mittee of its power to bring such a book to the notice of the Council 
itself. 
(p) The Council took no action upon proposals received from the 
Conference of Delegates: (i) That a meeting of delegates should be 
held in London; (ii) That the Council should urge the reappointment 
of a Royal Commission on Railways. As regards (ii) the Council felt 
that such a proposal lies outside the scope of the Association. 
IV. The Council have had under careful consideration various sugges- 
tions which have been made, in correspondence in Nature and elsewhere, 
in regard to the organisation of Sections, the improvement of annual 
meetings, etc. The Council appointed a Committee ‘to consider and 
report upon the redistribution of Sections and on other matters in connec- 
tion with the proceedings of the Annual Meeting,’ and this Committee 
has presented a valuable and suggestive report. The Council also caused 
all the Organising Sectional Committees to be summoned to meet on 
one day (February 25, 1921) at Burlington House, accommodation 
being provided for them through the kind collaboration of the 
Chemical Society, the Society of Antiquaries, and the Linnean Society: 
The Committees met jointly, as well as separately,’ and the opportunity 
thus afforded for interchange of views was greatly appreciated, and 
resulted in many valuable suggestions, especially in the direction of 
formulating subjects for joint discussion at the Edinburgh Meeting. 
In the outcome, the Council have made the following arrangements, 
which they hope will add to the success of the forthcoming and future 
Annual Meetings :— 
(a) Out of the subjects proposed for discussion at joint sectional 
meetings the Council have selected six, for which they have empowered 
the General Officers to fix times in the programme of the meeting, with 
a view to their arrangement as special features. 
(b) Sectional Presidents have been given the opportunity either of 
reading their addresses, as hitherto, or of speaking and introducing 
discussion upon their subjects (without formal reading). The Council 
have also empowered the General Officers to fix the times of presidential 
addresses in the programme, in order to avoid the clashing of subjects 
of kindred interest. 
(c) The Council have endorsed the opinion of the meeting on Feb- 
ruary 25 that any grouping of the Sections should be voluntary and 
temporary, not binding and permanent. They propose, however, that 
the General Committee should meet in special session at the Edinburgh 
Meeting to consider the question of a reduction in the number of 
Sections. 
(d) The Council have empowered Sectional Committees to submit 
each year a short list of names suitable for Presidents of their respective 
Sections at the next meeting. 
1 These meetings rendered unnecessary a meeting of Recorders of Sections 
similar to that which was so successfully held in 1920, and is referred to in 
Report of Council, 1919-20, § xv. 
