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specifically devoted, and requiring an annual statement of the expenditure. This 
account has recently been closed, and the moment is therefore opportune to summarise 
the whole position in relation to these generous gifts to the Association. The sum 
expended by the Association on research in the period 1917-23, excluding grants made 
at the recent meeting in Liverpool, has been £4,306. The sum received on account of 
the Bournemouth fund was £2,038, and this, together with the grant from the Research 
Department and the gifts of the late Sir James Caird, has enabled the Association still 
to meet the demands of research, while continuing to discharge its ordinary liabilities 
(greatly as these have increased since the war) and even in some measure extending 
them, as notably in the case of the ‘ exhibitions’ awarded in recent years to selected 
science students toward their expenses in attending annual meetings. 
It is only right to conclude this statement with reiterated thanks to the donors 
of the Bournemouth fund who so generously helped the Association over a critica] 
period ; in particular the principal contributors, Sir Charles Parsons (£1,000), Sir 
Alfred Yarrow (£500), Sir R. Hadfield (£250), Sir Hugh Bell (£100), Sir William 
Herdman (£100). Such generosity encourages those responsible for the financial 
affairs of the Association to aim at establishing for it a fuller measure of financial 
independence in relation to its ordinary expenditure, and especially that incurred 
at the annual meetings, and ensuring that a fuller proportion of the sums received 
by way of membership subscription may be available for the direct support of scientific 
work. 
VII. The Council have to thank the Museums Association for its 
invitation to hold the Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies 
at Wembley in connexion with the Association’s meeting there in July. 
Professor J. L. Myres has been nominated as President of the Conference. 
The Corresponding Societies Committee has been nominated as follows : 
The President of the Association (Chairman ex-officio), Mr. T. Sheppard 
(Vice-Chairman), the General Treasurer, the General Secretaries, Dr. 
F. A. Bather, Mr. O. G. 8. Crawford, Prof. P. F. Kendall, Mr. Mark L. 
Sykes, Dr. C. Tierney, Prof. W. W. Watts, Mr. W. Whitaker. 
VIII. The retiring Ordinary Members of the Council are: Sir R. A. 
Gregory, Mr. J. H. Jeans, Sir A. Keith, Mr. W. Whitaker, and Dr. W. E. 
Hoyle. 
The Council have received with sincere regret the resignation of 
Dr. W H. Hoyle owing to ill-health. 
The Council nominate the following new members :— 
Principal Ernest Barker | Prof. E. G. Coker 
Sir T. H. Holland 
leaving two vacancies to be filled by the General Committee without 
nomination by the Council. 
The full list of nominations of Ordinary Members is as follows :— 
Dr. F. W. Aston. Prof. A. Fowler. 
Mr. J. Barcroft. Sir Daniel Hall. 
Principal E. Barker. 
Sir W. H. Beveridge. 
Rt. Hon. Lord Bledisloe. 
Prof. E. G. Coker, 
Prof. W. Dalby. 
Prof. C. H. Desch. 
Mr. E. N. Fallaize. 
Dr. J. S. Flett. 
Prof. H. J. Fleure. 
Mr. C. T. Heycock. 
Sir T. H. Holland. 
Sir J. Scott Keltie. 
Prof. A. W. Kirkaldy. 
Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell. 
Dr. C. 8. Myers. 
Prof. A. W. Porter. 
Prof. A. C. Seward. 
Prof. A. Smithells. 
Mr. A. G. Tansley. 
