REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1927-28. 



I. The Council desires to congratulate the General Committee upon 

 the success of the petition to H.M. the King in Council, made on the 

 Committee's instruction by the President and General Officers, for the 

 grant of a Royal Charter of Incorporation to the Association. The grant 

 was approved on March 22, and the Charter was received on April 27. 



The Council conveyed to Mr. A. A. Campbell Swinton its warm thanks 

 for his generous donation of £200, covering the costs of the Charter and 

 expenses incidental to its acquisition. 



The Council has caused the Association's securities, hitherto in the 

 hands of Trustees, namely Major P. A. MacMahon, Sir Arthur Evans, and 

 the Hon. Sir Charles Parsons, to be transferred to the Association itself. 

 The Council commends the generous services of the Trustees to the General 

 Committee for an expression of their appreciation. 



The Council has had under consideration those of the former Rules of 

 the Association which have not been embodied in the Statutes appended 

 as a schedule to the Charter, has amended and added to them, and submits 

 them to the General Committee and the Committee of Recommendations 

 for consideration and adoption as Regulations supplementary to the 

 Statutes. 



II. The Council tendered its grateful thanks to H.R.H. the Prince of 

 Wales for his gift of a signed portrait as a memento of his presidency. 



III. The President sent to the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Balfour, K.G., O.M., 

 F.R.S. (President, 1904), a telegram expressing good wishes, on behalf of 

 the Association, on the occasion of Lord Balfour's eightieth birthday. 



IV. The Council has had to deplore the loss by death of the following 

 office-bearers and supporters : Dr. C. Chree, Lt.-Col. Allan Cunningham, 

 Dr. H. F. Gadow, Dr. D. G. Hogarth, Dr. J. Home, Prof. A. Liversidge, 

 Mr. W. C. F. Newton, Sir A. E. Shipley, Sir A. Strahan. 



The Council forwarded to the Linnean Society a message of condolence 

 on the death of Dr. Daydon Jackson. 



V. Sir Thomas Holland, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E., F.R.S., has been unani- 

 mously nominated to fill the office of President of the Association for the 

 year 1929-30 (South African Meeting). 



In accordance with the practice usual in connexion with an overseas 

 meeting, the Council has appointed a committee, consisting of the President 

 and General Officers, Lord Bledisloe, Sir William Bragg, Sir Richard Gregory 

 and Sir Thomas Holland (with power to add to their number), to assist 

 it in making arrangements for the South African Meeting. The Secretary 

 of the Association has visited South Africa to confer with the authorities 

 there on the arrangements, and has reported to the Council. The principal 

 points in his report, which has been approved and adopted by the Council, 

 are as follow : 



He was in consultation with the local executive at Johannesburg, appointed by 

 the South African Association for the Advancement of Science (the inviting body) 

 to arrange the meeting ; he also met the local Committee at Cape Town, and 

 university, municipal, and other authorities at both these cities and at Pretoria. He 



