XXXI 



THE CAIRO FUND. 



An unconditional gift of £10,000 for research was made to the Association at the 

 Dundee Meeting, 1912, by Mr. (afterwards Sir) J. K. Caird, LL.D., of Dundee. 



The Council, in its report to the General Committee at the Birmingham Meeting, 

 made certain recommendations as to the administration of this Fund. These 

 recommendations were adopted, with the Report, by the General Committee at its 

 meeting on September 10, 1913. 



The allocations made from the Fund by the Council to September 1922 will be 

 found stated in the Report for 1922, p. xxxi. Subsequent grants from the fund are 

 incorporated in the lists of Research Committees. 



In 1921-25 the Council authorised expenditure from accumulated income of the 

 fund upon grants to Research Committees apj)roved by the General Committee by way 

 of supplementing sums available from the general funds of the Association, and in 

 addition to grants ordinarily made by, or applied for from, the Council. 



Sir J. K. Caird, on September 10, 1913, made a further gift of £1,000 to the 

 Association, to be devoted to the study of Radio-activity. In 1920 the Council decided 

 to devote the principal and interest of this gift at the rate of £250 per annum for five 

 years to purposes of the research intended. The grants for the years ending March 24, 

 1922 and 1923, were made to Sir E. Rutherford, F.R.S. The grant for the year ending 

 March 24, 1924, was made to Prof. F. Soddy, F.R.S. The grant for the year ending 

 March 24, 1925, was divided between Messrs. C. T. R. Wilson (£100), J. Chadwick 

 (£75), and A. S. Russell (£75). The grant for the vear ending March 24, 1926, was 

 divided between Mr. P. M. S. Blackett (£100), Dr. J. Chadwick (£100), and Dr. A. S. 

 Russell (£50). For the year 1926-27 grants of £50 each were made to Messrs. Blackett. 

 Chadwick and Russell, and balance remaining was 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. 



RESOLUTIONS & RECOMMENDATIONS. 



The following Resolutions and Recommendations were referred to the 

 Council by the General Committee at Oxford for consideration, and, if 

 desirable, for action (except where specified as approved for action) : — 



' From Section A. 



That the administrative officers of the Association be instructed to standardise 

 the title of Section A in the form ' Mathematical and Physical Sciences.' (Approved 

 for action.) 



From Section A. 



That the Council be requested to inquire into the possibility of republishing the 

 reports of the Mathematical Tables Committee in collected form. 



From Section D. 



That, in view of the prohibitive duty required by H.M. Customs for the introduction 

 into this country of Dr. Cushman Murphy's cinematograph film, the Council of the 

 British Association be requested to take up the matter with a view to some distinction 

 being made between scientific and commercial films in the matter of Customs charges. 



From Section H. 



That the British Association deplores the detriment to scientific investigation 

 which results from certain details of the present scheme for the imposition of duties 



