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the question with the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, and a 

 committee subsequently met representatives of the Board of Inland 

 Revenue. It was proposed by the Board that a test case should be 

 brought against two selected societies during the year 1926-27, H.M. 

 Treasury bearing costs according to &n agreed scale irrespective of 

 the decision, and to this course the Council, on the part of the 

 Association, agreed. Discussion and arrangements are proceeding. 



XIII. The Corresponding Societies Committee has been nominated as 

 follows: the President of the Association {Chairman ex-officio), Mr. T. 

 Sheppard ( Wee- C'/ia /nwajf) , the General Treasurer, the General Secretaries, 

 Dr. F. A. Bather, Sir R. A. Gregory, Sir D. Prain, Sir J. Russell, 

 Mr. Marli Sykes, Dr. C. Tierney. 



XIV. The retiring Ordinary Meml:)ers of the Council are : Dr. F. W. 

 Aston, Mr. E. Barker, Sir Daniel Hall, Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell, and 

 Mr. A. G. Tansley. 



The Council nominates the following new members: — Professor J. P. 

 Hill, Sir John Russell, Professor A. C. Seward; leaving two vacancies 

 to be filled by the General Committee without nomination by the 

 Council. 



The full list of nominations of Ordinary Members is as follows : — 



Professor J. H. Ashworth. 

 Sir W. H. Beveridge. 

 Rt. Hon. Lord Bledisloe. 

 Professor A. L. Bowley. 

 Professor E. G. Coker. 

 Professor W. Dalby. 

 Dr. H. H. Dale. 

 Professor C. H. Desch. 

 Mr. E. N. Fallaize. 

 Sir J. S. Flett. 

 Professor H. J. Fleure. 

 Sir R. A. Gregory. 



XV. The General Officers have been nominated by the Council as 

 follows : — 



General Treastircr, Dr. E. H. Griffiths. 



General Secretaries, Prof. J. L. Myres, Mr. F. E. Smith. 



XVI. The following have been admitted as members of the General 

 Committee : — • 



Mr. C. T. Heycock. 

 Professor J. P. HilL 

 Sir T. H. Holland. 

 Dr. C. S. Myers. 

 Professor T. P. Nunn. 

 Professor A. W. Porter. 

 Professor A. O. Rankine. 

 Sir J. Russell. 

 Professor A. C. Seward. 

 Dr. F. C. Shrubsall. 

 Professor A. Smithells. 



Mrs. IS. L. Alcock. 



ilr. A. Leslie Armstrong;. 



Dr. A. Bramley. 



Dr. Winifred E. Brenchley. 



Dr. \V. T. Caiman. 



Miss C. Coignou. 



Dr. E. P. Farrow. 



Mr. G. A. Garfitt. 



Mr. W. Godden. 



Sir J. B. Henderson. 



XVII. Inquiry has been received as to the possibility of the Association 

 favourably considering an invitation to meet in South Africa in or about 

 1929. The Council had the advantage of discussing the matter with 

 Prof. H. B. Fantham (Johannesburg), and promised to refer anj^ such 

 proposal to the General Committee for its sympathetic consideration. 



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Dr. H. Henstock. 

 Prof. G. Hickling, 

 Mr. R. H. Kinvig. 

 Mr. H. Knox-Shaw. 

 INIiss M. A. Murray. 

 Mr. G. Leslie Purser. 

 Mr. W. P. Pycraft. 

 Dr. J. H. Shaxby. 

 Dr. T. A. Stephenson. 

 Dr. H. Hamsbaw Thomas. 



