xliv REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1927-28. 



VI. Representatives of the Association have been appointed as 

 follow : — 



Institute of Chemistry, Jubilee Celebration . Prof. E. C. C. Baly. 



Royal College of Physicians, Tercentenary 



of William Harvey . . . .Sir Charles Sherrington. 



Toronto University, Centenary Celebration . Sir Charles Sherrington. 



International Etruscan Congress . . Dr. Randall-Maclver. 



University College, Nottingham, opening of 

 ne.T buildings Prof. J. L. MjTes. 



National Association for the Prevention of 



Tuberculosis, Congress .... Dr. J. G. Garson. 



Meetings convened by the Management 

 Research Groups to consider rationalisa- 

 tion in industry The President and Secretary. 



On the report concerning the meetings last mentioned, the Council resolved to 

 welcome the proposal for management research groups ;i3 a step toward greater 

 freedom in the interchange of information with a view to establishing mutual con- 

 fidence and encouraging mutual service between enterprises of all kinds v.hich depend 

 for their efficiency on the methods and results of scientific investigations. 



VII. The Council, in pursuance of instruction received from the General 

 Committee, communicated to the British Science Guild the report of the 

 joint committee, with a general approval of the conditions therein suggested 

 upon which a union of the Guild with the Association might be 

 effected. 



Further action by the Council of the British Science Guild is awaited. 



VIII. Resolutions referred by the General Committee at the Leeds 

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

 dealt with as follows : 



(a) Information has been requested as to the proposed content of the 

 republished reports of the Mathematical Tables Committee in collected 

 form, with other tables, with a view to arriving at an estimate of cost. 

 A first and provisional estimate has been made, indicating a cost of £350 

 for an edition of 1,000 of such a volume as is contemplated, or of £430 for 

 an edition of 2,000. (Resolution of Section A.) 



(6) The Director-General of the Ordnance Survey, on being consulted 

 as to the publication of the survey of the St. Kilda islands, informed the 

 Council of his willingness to undertake the publication, and subsequently 

 that publication had taken place. (Resolution of Section E, supplemented 

 by Sections C, D, H, K.) 



(c) A resolution inviting the inclusion of geographical work in the 

 programme of the proposed Great Barrier Reef Expedition was i -ferred 

 to the Great Barrier Reef Committee. The Council is informed that 

 expert geographers are included in the staff of the expedition. (Resolution 

 of Section E.) 



(d) A letter ' was received from the Scottish Board of Education in 

 answer to representations made on the teaching of geography in Scotland 

 (Resolution of Section E). 



( ) In regard to the resolution authorising the Council to })ublish a 

 new edition of ' Notes and Queries on Anthropology,' the Council has made 

 an interim grant of £50 toward incidental expenses of the work of compila- 

 tion, and awaits an estimate of the cost of publication. (Resolution of 

 Section H.) 



' Fur letter and discussion in Section E, see p. 639. 



