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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1925-26. 



I. The Council presented an address of condolence to The King on 

 the death of Queen Alexandra, and received His Majesty's gracious 

 acknowledgment. 



II. The Council presented a resolution of welcome and con- 

 gratulation to H.E.H. The Prince of Wales, President-elect, on his 

 return from South Africa and South America, and received The Prince's 

 gracious acknowledgment. 



III. The Council has had to deplore the loss by death of Sir 

 Francis Darwin (President, 1908) ; of Mr. W. Bateson (President, 1914), 

 who was to have presided over Section K (Botany) at the Oxford 

 Meeting ; of Dr. W. Evans Hoyle, local secretary for the Cardiff Meeting 

 in 1920 and a recent member of the Council; and, among other 

 supporters and former ofBce-bearei's, Prof. A. R. Cushny, Prof. F. Y. 

 Edgeworth, Mr. J. S. Gamble, Prof. A. Gray, Mr. W. P. Hiern, 

 Prof. J. W. Langley, and the Eev. T. E. E. Stebbing. 



IV. Prof. Sir Arthur Keith, F.E.S., has been unanimously nominated 

 by the Council to fill the office of President of the Association for the 

 year 1927-28 (Leeds Meeting). 



V. Eepresentatives of the Association have been appointed as 

 follows : — 



Carnegie U. K. Trustees' Conference on 



Museums as a factor in Education. . Dr. H. Bolton. 



American Association for the Advancement 



of Science, Kansas City Meeting . . Prof. J. C. Fields and 



Prof. W. A. Parks. 

 French Society of Chemical Industry, Paris, 



Oct. 1925 • Sir W. Pope. 



Sheffield University, Coming-of-Age, June 



30, 1926 Mr. F. B. Smith. 



Congress of Chemical Industry, Brussels, 



September, 1926 Sir W. Pope. 



VI. Eesolutions referred by the General Committee at the South- 

 ampton Meeting to the Council for consideration, and, if desirable, for 

 action, were dealt with as follows : — 



(«) The Council adopted by a majority a resolution that invitations 

 to attend the Oxford Meeting should be issued to eminent scientists 

 irrespective of nationality. 



The temporary suspension of honorary corresponding membership, 

 appHed in 1919 in the case of certain foreign scientific men, has been 

 removed. 



(6) The Council regrets that the railway authorities do not see 

 their way to including scientific parties specifically in the regulations 

 governing the issue of return period tickets. (Eesolutions of Sections 

 0, D, E.) 



(c) The Council referred to the Board of Education a resolution 

 inviting consideration of an amendment of a cbuse in Circular 826 

 (1913), permitting in certain events the curtailment or discontinuance 

 of instruction in geography. (Eesolution of Section E.) 



