REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1931-32. 



Obituary. 



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

 office-bearers and supporters : — 



Prof. A. Barr 



George Barrow 



Dr. W. Briggs 



Major-Gen. Sir David Bruce {ex- 

 President) 



Dr. G. Claridge Druce 



Dr. H. T. Ferrar 



Dr. J. G. Garson {ex-Assistant- 

 General Secretary) 



Prof. Sir Patrick Geddes 



Dr. J. Graham 



Prof. J. W. Gregory 



Dr. E. H. Griffiths {ex-General 



Treasurer) 

 Dr. Victoria Hazlitt 

 Col. Sir Duncan Johnston 

 Prof. A. W. Kirkaldy {hon. Auditor) 

 Dr. J. af Klercker 

 Prof. Carveth Read 

 Sir Harry Reichel 

 Sir William Somerville 

 Sir Thomas Stanton 

 Sir Richard Threlfall 

 Sir Alfred Yarrow (benefactor and 



honorary member) 



The Association was represented at the memorial service for Sir David 

 Bruce by Prof. P. G. H. Boswell, General Secretary ; at that for Sir Alfred 

 Yarrow by Sir Alfred Ewing, President, and Prof. J. L. Myres, General 

 Secretary ; at the funeral of Dr. E. H. Griffiths by Sir Alfred Ewing, and at 

 that of Dr. J. G. Garson by Prof. W. W. Watts. 



Prof. F. O. Bower represented the Association at the funeral of the 

 Very Rev. Lionel Ford, Dean of York. 



Representation. 



II. — Representatives of the Association have been appointed as 

 follows : — 



Wild Plants Preservation Board, Council 

 for the Preservation of Rural England 



York Medical Society, Centenary . 



National Academy of Sciences, Washing- 

 ton : One hundredth anniversary of 

 electrical discoveries of Joseph Henry 



Royal Society of Canada : Fiftieth Anni- 

 versary ...... 



British Medical Association : Centenary 



Prof. E. J. Salisbury 

 Prof. F. O. Bower 



Prof. W. F. G. Swann 



Prof. A. B. Macallum 

 Sir Charles Sherrington 



Presidency. 



III. — The revision of Statute VI, i, made by the General Committee 

 at the Centenary Meeting, under which the period of the presidency of 

 the Association should coincide with the calendar year, duly received the 

 approval of H.M. Privy Council, as provided in Article lo of the Charter 

 of the Association. Sir Alfred Ewing therefore assumed the presidency 

 as from January i, 1932. 



IV. — At the Centenary Meeting, the General Committee expressed the 

 feeling that it was undesirable that the Council's nomination to the 

 presidency of the Association should be published. The Council there- 

 fore resolved that the nomination should not be communicated to the 



