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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1924-25. XV 
V. Following upon the Toronto Meeting, the Council have to thank 
the Royal Institution for an invitation which resulted in a most enjoyable 
and valuable meeting between members of the Institution and of the 
Association on December 17, 1924. An exhibition was arranged of 
photographs taken and specimens collected by members of the Associa- 
tion in Canada ; short lectures were given by Sir John Russell and Prof. 
W. W. Watts on special aspects of the Toronto Meeting and the trans- 
continental excursion which took place after it, and a portion of the 
Ontario Government cinema film made during the visit was shown, and 
was explained by Sir Thomas Holland. 
VI. Resolutions referred by the General Committee at the Toronto 
Meeting to the Council for consideration, and, if desirable, for action, were 
dealt with as follows :— 
(a) The Council submitted to H.M. Government and to the Universities 
Bureau the proposal 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 education 
and research in geographical, economic, and social conditions. This 
proposal was supplemented by a reasoned statement, to which H.M. 
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs promised that full consideration 
should be given. (Resolutions of Sections E, F, H, and L.) 
(6) Following upon discussion with representatives of the National 
Research Council (U.8.A.) on the subject of an international abstracting 
service for biological sciences, resolutions expressing general approval, in 
principle, of establishing such a service were received from Sections 
©, D, H, I, J, K, and M. The Council, on learning that a committee of the 
Royal Society was considering this matter, placed at that committee’s 
disposal the information in possession of the Association. 
Other resolutions, referred to the Council by organising sectional 
committees during the year, were dealt with as follows :— 
(c) The Council commended to the consideration of the Ontario 
Government the support of the researches undertaken by the depart- 
ment of zoology in the University of Toronto on freshwater fisheries in 
Ontario. (Organising Committee of Section D.) 
(d) The Council, after inquiry, found that no action could usefully be 
taken with a view to preventing the closing of the Marine Biological 
Station at Little Abaco, Bahamas. (Organising Committee of Section D.) 
(e) The Council referred to Section D, and to the Committee on 
Zoological Bibliography and Publication, a protest against the curtail- 
ment of distribution of scientific publications by Government departments, 
etc., with especial reference to zoological publications. 
(f) The Council forwarded to the Board of Education a request 
received from the Committee on Geography Teaching, through the 
Organising Committee of Section E, that the Board should prepare and 
issue suggestions on the teaching of geography, etc. 
(g) The Council forwarded to the Department of Scientific and Indus- 
trial Research a proposal that the five reports on Colloid Chemistry, 
_ published on behalf of the Association by the Department through 
H.M. Stationery Office, should be re-edited and re-issued in a single 
volume. 
