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a number in excess of the largest estimate originally formed, and the South 

 African Committee found it desirable to limit late entries to practising 

 scientific workers invited by the Committee. 



V. Association Frangaise four V Avancement des Sciences. — Following 

 upon the cordial invitation received by the General Committee from the 

 French Association through Dr. A. Loir, and accepted, for any members of 

 the British Association not visiting South Africa to attend the meeting of 

 the French Association in July, the Council appointed Sir Henry Lyons as 

 its official representative at that meeting and as Chairman of an Organising 

 Committee for arrangements in connection with the visit. The Conference 

 of Delegates of Corresponding Societies was appointed to take place in 

 Havre under the Presidency of Dr. F. A. Bather (vice the late Sir George 

 Fordham), with Dr. C. Tierney as Secretary and Mr. T. Sheppard as Acting 

 Secretary for the Meeting. 



VI. Centenary Meeting, 1931. — The General Committee having 

 expressed the wish that the Centenary Meeting should take place in London, 

 the Council is happy to report the receipt of a letter, dated February 26, 

 1929, from the Town Clerk of the City of London, in the following terms : — 



I am asked by the Court of Common Council to express the hope that London will 

 be selected as the place for the holding of the Centenary Meeting of the British 

 Association in 1931. In that event, the Corporation will be happy to give an Enter- 

 tainment to the Association — the precise form of vk'hich can be determined later. 



I may add that it is proposed to appoint a Ward Committee to carry out the 

 arrangements decided upon. 



Under the authority delegated to it by the General Committee at the 

 Glasgow Meeting, the Council gratefully accepted this invitation, and has 

 under consideration the venue of the inaugural and other meetings, etc., 

 which could not be conveniently accommodated within the City boundaries. 



The Council was represented by Prof. J. L. Myres, with the Secretary 

 in attendance, at a meeting of representatives of interested societies 

 convened by the Royal Institution to consider the celebration in 1931 

 of the centenary of Faraday's discovery of electro-magnetic induction, 

 and subsequently, by invitation, appointed Dr. F. E. Smith to represent 

 it on a Committee formed to further this object. It is desired that 

 this celebration may immediately precede the Centenary Meeting of 

 the British Association, and the Council feels that such an arrangement 

 would enhance the scientific importance of both occasions. 



In view of the known desire in York, the birthplace of the Association, 

 that the Centenary Meeting should take place there, the Council gave 

 instructions that the reasons which had led to tho reluctant rejection of this 

 proposal should be fully laid before the atithorities in York. They were 

 at the same time informed of the alternative suggestion mentioned to the 

 General Committee at Glasgow, namely (a) that there should be a week-end 

 excursion to York during the Centenary Meeting, (b) that the Annual 

 Meeting in 1932 should be held in York (a course to which the authorities 

 of Leicester present at the Glasgow Meeting gave assent, expressing their 

 willingness to defer their own invitation to the year 1933). The 

 authorities in York accepted the above suggestion, and with the con- 

 currence of those in Leicester it is now confirmed that the Annual 

 Meeting in 1932 will be held in York, and that in 1933 in Leicester. 



