XIV 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1923-24. 
I. Professor Horace Lamb, F.R.S., has been unanimously nominated 
by the Council to fill the office of President of the Association for the year 
1925-26 (Southampton Meeting). 
II. The Council have passed resolutions of regret at the death of 
Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S. (Secretary, 1881-85; President, 1910), Sir 
Edmund Walker, Chancellor of the University of Toronto and Vice-Presi- 
dent elect of the Association for the Toronto Meeting, and Sir William 
Herdman, C.B.E., F.R.S. (General Secretary, 1903-19; President, 1920). 
III. The General Officers, a Committee of the Council, and the Council 
themselves, have been fully occupied with arrangements for the Toronto 
Meeting. They acknowledge gratefully the unsparing labours of the 
executive in Toronto, with which the Secretary of the Association was 
enabled to acquaint himself during a visit, on the invitation of the 
executive, to Toronto in January. They have also to acknowledge the 
generosity of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 
undertaking to distribute circulars relating to the Meeting to all its 
members. 
IV. Representatives of the Association have been appointed as follows : 
Physical Society of France, Fiftieth 
Anniversary . Professor F. Lindemann. 
Royal Colonial Institute, Committee dealing 
with conference on questions of imperial 
education at the British Empire Exhibition Professor T. P. Nunn. 
American Association for the Advancement 
of Science, Cincinnati Meeting ¢ . Professor J. P. MacMurrich. 
Kelvin Centenary, Committee of Honour . Sir Ernest Rutherford. 
British Academy, Committee on reparation 
of losses to Imperial University Library, 
Tokyo, through earthquaket : Professor J. L. Myres. 
Joseph Leidy Commemorative Meeting, 
Philadelphia... Professor W. H. Welch. 
International Mathematical — Congress, 
Toronto : - : : 4 . Sir William Ashley, Sir William 
Bragg, Professor G. W. O. 
Howe, Major P. A. MacMahon. 
Franklin Institute, Centenary Celebration Sir Ernest Rutherford and Hon. 
Sir Charles Parsons. 
Association Frangaise pour lAvancement 
des Sciences, Liége Meeting . : . Dr. J. G. Garson. 
Sir R. A. Gregory, who was appointed to represent the Association on 
the Cinematograph Committee of the Board of Education, reports that 
the Committee has been informed of the importance attached to its work 
by the President of the Board, who is publishing its results as part of the 
Imperial Education Conference. 
i a A set of the Association Reports, so far as available, has been presented to the 
ibrary. 
