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had been previously before the Council, careful inquiry failed to reveal 

 the necessity for formally bringing the matter to the notice of H.M. 

 Treasury ; it appeared that any individual cases of difficulty would 

 receive sympathetic consideration from the authorities concerned. 



X. In co-opei'ation with the British Science Guild, the Council 

 summoned a conference of representatives of leading scientific Societies 

 to consider the desirability and possibility of establishing a science news 

 service, and a committee was appointed to deal further with this matter. 



XI. The Council has received reports from the General Treasurer 

 throughout the year. His accounts have been audited and are presented 

 to the General Committee. The Council made the following grants to 

 research committees from the Caird Fund : — 



£ £ 



Naples Table 100 Marine Laboratory, Plymouth 20 



Seismology ... ... 100 Zoological Eecord ... ... 35 



Tables of Constants ... 6 Bronze Implements 80 



Upper Atmosphere ... 38 Index Kewensis ... ... 70 



Colloid Chemistry ... 5 Kent's Cavern ... ... 10 



Quaternary Peats ... 38 Corresponding Societies 



Committee ... ... 40 



and a donation of £10 10s. to the Optical Convention, 1926. 



Having regard to the exceptional circumstances of the Oxford Meet- 

 ing (namely the possibility of an unusually large attendance at a 

 meeting in a non-industrial area, involving unusual expenditure upon 

 entertainment, etc., in a locality where financial resources might be found 

 to be restricted), the Council agreed with the Local Executive Committee 

 that from any receipts for membership tickets in excess of £2,500 

 (exclusive of life compositions and payments for the Eeport) the 

 sum of 5s. in the pound should be earmarked as a guarantee fund to 

 supplement the local fund if necessary. Further, the Local Executive 

 Committee having decided that each subscriber of £5 and upwards to 

 the local fund should be given a membership ticket, it was agreed that 

 the sum of 15s. instead of one pound should be payable to the 

 Association as the price of each such ticket. 



The General Treasurer, with the authority of the Council and the 

 assistance of a Committee, has had under consideration the possibility 

 of increasing the capital funds of the Association by means of an appeal. 



The remaining balance of accrued interest upon the Caird Gift for 

 research in radio-activity has been granted, for the year 1926-27, as to 

 £50 each to Mr. P. Blackett, Dr. J. Chadwick, and Dr. A. S. Eussell, 

 any balance remaining from the income of the gift being brought into 

 general funds and earmarked as available for a grant to any Committee 

 of the Association appointed in the future to undertake research in radio- 

 activity. The trust fund is thus finally disposed of. 



XII. At the instance of certain of the Corresponding Societies, upon 

 which demands for the payment of income tax, previously remitted, 

 have recently been made, a full inquiry was undertaken, and after 

 consultation with the Society of Antiquaries and societies in union 

 therewith, and with other leading societies, a joint deputation discussed 



