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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1926-27. 



I. The Council in November last took the earliest opportunity of 

 acknowledging the deep obligation of the Association to Sir Alfred Yarrow 

 in the following terms : — 



That the Council places upon record its profound gratitude to Sir 

 Alfred Yarrow for his munificent gift of £10,000 to the funds of the 

 Association for general purposes ; that the Council welcomes the wise 

 condition made by Sir Alfred Yarrow that the gift should be expended 

 as to both capital and interest within twenty years, and resolves that 

 effect shall be given thereto. 



II. The Council places upon record its grateful memory of the late 

 Prof. A. W. Scott, of Lampeter, a regular attendant at the meetings 

 of the Association for many years, who by his will devised the sum of 

 £250 to the funds of the Association. 



Among other supporters and former office-bearers, the Council has 

 had to deplore the loss by death of Sir William Ashley, Prof. A. W. 

 Crossley, Prof. F. W. Gamble, Sir George Greenhill, Dr. E. Sidney 

 Hartland, Sir John Scott Keltie, Mr. G. W. Lamplugh, Mr. J. J. Lister, 

 Mr. Edwin Ransom (who became a life member in 1868), Sir William 

 Ridgeway, Prof. E. H. Starling, Sir William Tilden, Gen. Sir Charles 

 Warren, and the Rev. P. H. Wicksteed. 



III. Prof. Sir William Bragg, F.R.S., has been unanimously 

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

 for the year 1928-29 (Glasgow Meeting). 



IV. Representatives of the Association have been appointed as 

 follows : — 



International Congress of Plant Sciences . Prof. A. W. Hill and 



Dr. A. B. Rendle. 

 Deutsche Naturforscher, Diisseldorf Meeting Dr. J. G. Garson. 

 American Association for the Advancement 



of Science ...... Prof. J. L. Myres. 



Royal Sanitary Institute, Hastings Meeting . Mr. T. S. Dymond, Mayor 



of Hastings. 

 Royal Microscopical Society, Liverpool 



Meeting ...... Prof. J. McLean Thompson. 



American Philosophical Society, second 



Centenary ...... Prof. A. N. Whitehead. 



Lister Centenary ..... Sir E. Sharpey-Schafer. 



University College, London, Centenary . Prof. Sir A. Keith. 



V. Resolutions referred by the General Committee, at the Oxford 

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

 were dealt with as follows : — 



(a) The Council requested Dr. J. R. Airey to consider whether, in the 

 event of the Association's undertaking to republish the reports of the 

 Mathematical Tables Committee in collected form, it would be advantageous 

 to include tables published by other institutions by arrangement with 

 such institutions. This matter is expected to come up for further con- 

 sideration at the Leeds Meeting (Resolution of Section A). 



(b) The Council has had under discussion with the Board of Trade the 

 question of the duty required by H.M. Customs on the introduction of 

 cinematograph films into this country for scientific purposes and not 



