xv i REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1926-27. 



(d) In order to give effect to the Resolution of Sections L and M, 

 asking that public attention be drawn to the need for preparation for 

 overseas life in schools, etc., the Council took measures to bring to the 

 notice of appropriate Government authorities and educational associations 

 the reports of the Overseas Training Committee and of the discussion on 

 overseas training at the Oxford Meeting. 



(e) The Council received from Sir John Flett a statement on the value 

 of records of temporarily open geological sections, and circulated it to the 

 Corresponding Societies. (Resolution of the Conference of Delegates of 

 Corresponding Societies.) 



VI. The Council has to report that the claims for remission of income 

 tax by the two societies taken as test cases, 1 viz., the Geologists' Associa- 

 tion and the Midland Counties Institution of Engineers, have been rejected 

 by the Special Commissioners for Income Tax. The cases are in preparation 

 for presentation in the High Court. 



VII. As previously reported (1925-26, x), the Council, in co-operation 

 with the British Science Guild, caused a Conference, representative of 

 learned societies and scientific institutions in London, to be called to 

 consider the desirability and possibility of establishing a Science 

 News Service for the Press. The matter has been further under considera- 

 tion, and a report, presented to the Conference by a committee thereof, 

 was published in the Journal of the British Science Guild. July, 1927. 

 The Council, however, after full inquiry, has decided not to take any 

 further action toward the establishment of such a service. 



VIII. The Council appointed a committee to consider and report upon 

 the advisability of approaching the British Science Guild with a view to 

 establishing closer relations. Having received the report of this com- 

 mittee, the Council resolved to ' invite the co-operation of the British 

 Science Guild in considering whether, having regard to the close 

 community of scientific interests between the Association and the Guild, 

 their objects would, as the Council believe, be more fully attained by 

 means of a working union between the two societies ; and if so, by what 

 means such union would best be given effect.' The Guild proposed a 

 joint committee to consider this resolution, and the Council appointed 

 thereto Lord Bledisloe, Dr. C. S. Myers, Prof. T. P. Nunn, and Prof. A. 

 Smithells, together with the General Secretaries. The Council has 

 received a report from this joint committee, and will report further in 

 due course to the General Committee. 



IX. 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 Seismology ... £100 



and a donation of £25 towards the expenses of the Royal Anthropological 

 Institute's expedition to the Abyssinian frontier. 



X. The Corresponding Societies Committee has been nominated as 

 follows : the President of the Association (Chairman ex-qfficio), Mr. T. 



1 See Report of the Council, 1925-26, xii. 



