X1V 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1922-23. 
I. Major-General Sir David Bruce, K.C.B., F.R.S., has been unani- 
- mously nominated by the Council to fill the office of President of the 
Association for the year 1924-25 (Toronto Meeting). 
If. The Council conveyed to Sir William Herdman their condolence 
on the lamented death of Lady Herdman, and to Lady Dewar on that 
of Sir James Dewar, ex-President. 
III. The Hon. Sir Charles Parsons, ex-President, and Dr. E. H. 
Griffiths, General Treasurer, represented the Association at the 
Centenary celebration of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, Septem- 
ber 20, 1922, and presented an Address on behalf of the Council, in 
which it was stated that the Society ‘ is justly regarded by the Associa- 
tion as its mother-society.’ 
Representatives of the Association have been appointed as follows :— 
Air Conference, Guildhall : . . Mr. F. E. Smith, Sir Richard 
Gregory and the Secretary. 
Council of Honour, International Air 
Congress Mr. R. V. Southwell. 
Societa Italiana per il “Progresso delle 
Scienze . : 5 ¢ : : . Professor J. L. Myres and Dr. 
Randall Maclver. 
Congres International pour la Protection 
de la Nature . : . Dz. P. Chalmers Mitchell. 
Royal Sanitary Institute Congress i Mr. W. Whitaker. 
Royal Institute of Public Health 
Congress : Dr. C. §. Myers. 
Pan-Pacifie Science Congress . : . Professor W. A. Osborne. 
Advisory Council, Scientific Expedi- 
tionary Research "Association : Mr. F. E. Smith. 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology : 
Inauguration of President . s . Professor W. MacDougall. 
Huxley Centenary Committee . : Professor E. B. Poulton. 
Association Bpanee (eet Meet- 
ing). : 2 . J. G. Garson. 
IV. The Council expressed to Sir Robert Hadfield the grateful thanks 
of the Association for his generous gift designed to enable necessitous 
students to obtain scientific books. The gift is of £50 in each of three 
years, and that sum, for the first year, has been distributed in grants 
of £10 to each of five universities or colleges selected by lot, viz. 
University College of Bangor, North Wales; University College, Cardiff ; 
Universities of Leeds, Liverpool, and Manchester. 
V. In furtherance of the movement to establish a central institution 
for the encouragement of more general interest in anthropological studies 
(Report, Hull Meeting, p. xv., § III, g), it has been ascertained that the 
Royal Anthropological Institute is willing, under certain conditions, to 
undertake the functions of such an institution, and has established a 
