XXXil 
RESOLUTIONS & RECOMMENDATIONS.: 
The following Resolutions and Recommendations were received and 
approved by the General Committee at Toronto, and, with the exception 
of the first, were referred to the Council for consideration, and, if desirable, 
for action. 
From Section B. 
That the sectional meetings on the Western Excursion be regarded as a part of the 
official programme of the Association. 
From Sections EL, F, H and L.' 
That the Council be requested to submit to His Majesty’s Government and to the 
Universities Bureau that in any scheme for applying funds from the Boxer Indemnity 
to the provision of further facilities for higher education and research in China, account 
should be taken of the urgent need for the foundation of an institute in China for the 
purpose of education and research in geographical, economic and social conditions. 
Resolutions on International Service of Biological Abstracts. 
SEctIon C approves in principle the proposals to establish an international service 
of biological abstracts as formulated by the Union of American Biological Societies, 
on the understanding that, the biological (including systematic) side of paleontology 
will be included, as it already is in the Zoological Record, with which all possible con- 
tinuity should be maintained; further, it suggests to the Council that eventual details 
of arrangements and indexing should be reported on by the Association’s Committee on 
Zoological Bibliography and Publication. 
Srcrron D heartily approves in principle the proposal of the Union of American 
Biological Societies for the institution of an international comprehensive series of bio- 
logical abstracts, and recommends the Genera] Committee to authorise the Council 
to take the necessary steps to bring about the collaboration of British workers. 
The Committee of Section D hopes that, in any such scheme, means may be found 
to preserve all possible continuity with the existing Zoological Record. 
Section H resolves: To ask the Council to support the proposal put forward by the 
National Research Council, U.S.A., for the institution of an international abstracting 
service for all biological sciences. 
Section I.—The Committee of the Section, which is in close touch with the Physio- 
logical Societies of both Great Britain and America, while it desired a sympathetic 
approach to our American colleagues in this matter, hoped the Physiological Section of 
the new Biological Abstracts would be arranged in co-operation with those responsible 
for the publication of physiological abstractsin England. The Committee desired that 
Prof. H. C. Bazett of Philadelphia be appointed as a member of the Publication Com- 
mittee of the proposed Abstracts, to make possible this co-operation, this appointment 
being made in response to the request of those speaking on behalf of biological abstracts. 
Srction J.—The Section of Psychology cordially welcomes efforts to arrange inter- 
national co-operation in making and publishing abstracts of work bearing on psychology. 
Some progress has already been made by psychologists in this direction. The Section 
believes that there should be a considerable degree of national decentralisation. 
The Section further sympathises with plans for co-operation among the different 
biological sciences. It should be noted, however, that the relations of psychology are 
not only with the biological sciences, and psychologists would especially welcome 
methods by which they could obtain abstracts of all papers bearing on psychology with- 
out subscribing for abstracts unrelated to it. 
Section K resolved: That the Committee of Section K heartily supports the pro- 
posal for the establishment of an International Journal for the Abstracting of Biological 
Publications, and instructs its representative (Dr. Rendle) to express this view to the 
Committee which is considering this matter in Toronto. 
Section M favours the general plan for a comprehensive Journal of Biological 
Abstracts as outlined in Science, of September 28, 1923, and presented to the Associa- 
tion by representatives of the American Union of Biological Societies, and accepts the 
invitation to appoint representatives on the Joint Publication Committee of the Union 
and the National Research Council of the United States. 
1 The terms of the resolutions i 
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