XVI REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1923-24. 
To urge the adoption by scientific societies of the bibliographical recommendations 
contained in the current Report of the Zoological Publications Committee. 
To call the attention of local scientific societies to the need for prompt and 
systematic supervision, in the interests of scientific record, of all sections and other 
excavations which are opened during the construction of new roads or other 
public works. 
A resolution dealing with the metric gallon was referred to the 
Organising Committees of Sections A and G, with a view to further 
discussion at the Annual Meeting. 
(f) A resolution received from the Committee on Marine Biological 
Research in India through the Organising Committee of Section D, dealing 
with further provision for such research in Indian waters and the establish- 
ment of a station in the Andaman Islands, was submitted to H.M. 
Secretary of State for India, with a request for hissympatheticconsideration, 
and has been forwarded by him to the Government of India. 
VI. The Council have received reports from the General Treasurer 
throughout the year. His accounts have been audited and are presented 
to the General Committee. 
The Council made the following grants to research committees from the 
Caird Fund :— 
Seismology Committee ast sh ai ... £100 
Naples Table Committee... a a .. 100 
Bronze Implements Committee ... nes = 60 
Tables of Constants Committee... wn io 15 
Zoological Record Committee us a uct 50 
Plymouth Marine Laboratory Committee... a 25 
The third grant of £250 from the Caird Gift for research in radio- 
activity (for the year ending March 24, 1925) has been divided between 
Messrs. C. T. R. Wilson, A. 8. Russell, and J. Chadwick. 
The British Association Exhibitions established in connection with 
the Liverpool Meeting were awarded to nineteen students nominated by 
the same number of universities and colleges, while six of these institutions 
made equivalent allowances for thirteen additional students. All were 
entertained by the Local Executive Committee at Liverpool. The fact 
that the forthcoming meeting will be overseas obviously prohibits the full 
maintenance of the scheme for the present year, but the Council are glad 
to report that certain institutions are assisting students or members of 
junior staffs to attend, and it has been found possible to offer some 
assistance from Association funds, while the local executive at Toronto 
has generously promised hospitality. 
At the meeting of the Council in December last the General Treasurer 
made the following statement :— 
It will be within the recollection .of the Council that Sir Charles Parsons, when 
President at the Bournemouth Meeting in 1919, initiated a fund to enable the Associa- 
tion to maintain its grants for research. A measure of support for research had been 
given during the two years 1917-18, in spite of the fact that there were no meetings of 
the Association, in consequence of which its resources were seriously depleted. The fund 
was initiated to cover the deficit for those years as well as to assist the Association for 
the future. Ordinary working expenses were at the time exceeding receipts, especially 
in the direction of printing, despite the strict economies put into force by the Council. 
About the same time as the Bournemouth fund was initiated, the Department of 
Scientific and Industrial Research made a grant of £600 to the Association, specifying 
certain researches (within the scope of the Department) to which this sum might be 
