REPORT 0¥ THE COUNCIL, 1927-28. xlv 



(/) A resolution dealing with the low percentage of productive forest 

 area in Great Britain was adopted with the addition of a reference to the 

 rapid depletion of forests in other parts of the Empire, and was com- 

 municated to the Empire Forestry Association and the Empire Marketing 

 Board. (Resolution of Section K.) 



(g) In regard to resolutions from the Conference of Delegates of 

 Corresponding Societies, dealing with the preservation of British wild 

 flora, the Council caused a circular letter to be addressed to 311 education 

 authorities in England and Wales, inviting their support in strengthening 

 and extending the movement toward this object, and received from some 

 fifty of these authorities replies indicative of a realisation of the importance 

 of the matter. The Council acknowledges with gratitude information 

 placed at its disposal by the Home Ofl&ce, and has remitted further con- 

 sideration of the question to the committee nominated by Section K 

 (Botany) to deal with it. 



IX. The attention of the Council was drawn to the full account of 

 the special sessions on textile subjects at the Leeds Meeting issued as a 

 number of the Journal of the Textile Institute, Manchester, and to the 

 warm appreciation of the action of^the Council, therein expressed, in 

 arranging these sessions. 



X. The Council in its report for 1926-27 recorded its unsatisfactory 

 negotiations with Government authorities on the subject of the introduc- 

 tion of cinematograph films into this country for scientific purposes and 

 not for commercial use. The Council is glad to learn that the difficulty 

 encountered has now been overcome by the action of H.M. Government 

 in undertaking to accept the certificate of the Royal Society as to films 

 stated to be illustrative of scientific investigations. 



XI. 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 income of the Caird Fund : 



Naples Table .. £100 Seismology.. .. £100 



A sum of £10 10s. was voted toward the expenses of the Inquiry into 

 the relationship of Technical Education to other forms of Education and 

 to Industry and Commerce, upon which the Association was represented 

 by Sir Robert Blair. 



The Council has been informed that under the will of the late Lt.-Col. 

 Allan Cunningham a legacy will accrue to the Association for the purpose 

 of continuing the work of preparing new mathematical tables. 



The Association, like the great majority of scientific societies, has been 

 unable to recover income tax previously remitted upon income from 

 invested funds. The cases regarded by the Inland Revenue authorities 

 as test cases upon the liability of societies to taxation (Geologists' Associa- 

 tion ; Midland Counties Institution of Engineers) have been decided 

 against the societies by the Special Commissioners and in the High Court 

 of Justice. The Council is informed that appeals against these decisions 

 have been lodged. 



XII. The Corresponding Societies Committee has been nominated as 

 follows : The President of the Association {Chairman ex-officio), Mr. T. 



