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press, and that it should not be announced in the present report, but 

 should be made verbally to the General Committee on the first day of the 

 Annual Meeting. This procedure is a reversion to the practice of the 

 Association in its earlier years. 



Resolutions from the Centenary Meeting. 



V. — Resolutions dealing with the Council's nomination to the 

 presidency of the Association, and to expenditure in connection with 

 the annual meetings, are reported upon elsewhere in this report. 



Resolutions referred by the General Committee to the Council for 

 consideration, and, if desirable, for action were dealt with as follows. 

 The resolutions will be found in the Report for 1931, p. lix. 



(a) A resolution from Section D (Zoology) dealing with the pro- 

 tection of the gorilla in Uganda, was forwarded to the Colonial Office 

 as requested. 



(b) The Council received assurance that effect would be given to 

 recommendations from Section H (Anthropology) relating to the pro- 

 gramme of the International Congress for Prehistoric and Protohistoric 

 Sciences, 1932. 



(c) The Council adopted a resolution from Section H (Anthropology) 

 relating to the disposal of objects from the Cresswell Caves, Derbyshire. 



(d) The Council, after careful consideration, decided to take no 

 action upon a resolution from the Conference of Delegates of Corre- 

 sponding Societies, recommending the use of durable paper for scientific 

 publications. 



VI. — A recommendation from Section E (Geography), advocating the 

 publication of population maps in connection with the census of 1931, 

 was forwarded immediately, by direction of the General Committee itself, 

 to the Registrars-General for England and Wales and for Scotland ; but 

 they regretted that they could not advocate the preparation of such maps 

 at the present time. 



VII. — The Council adopted a recommendation from the Organising 

 Committee of Section I (Physiology), following upon a resolution by the 

 Sectional Committee at the Centenary Meeting, that it was not advisable 

 to hold an independent meeting of Section I at York this year, in view of 

 the Fourteenth International Physiological Congress which is to take place 

 simultaneously at Rome. 



Dow^N House. 



VIII. — The following report for the year 1931-32 has been received 

 from the Down House Committee : — ■ 



The Committee desire to record their gratification at the conferment 

 of the honour of knighthood upon Sir Buckston Browne. 



The number of visitors to Down House during the year ending June 6, 

 1932, has been 7,638, compared with 5,210 in the previous year. During 

 the week of the Centenary Meeting of the Association, Sept. 23-30, 1931, 

 there were 660 visitors. Three special excursions were arranged for 

 members, a general excursion on Friday, Sept. 25, when the Hon. Curator, 

 Mr. Buckston Browne, was present to receive the party ; a visit for the 

 Delegates of Corresponding Societies on Monday, Sept. 28, and a visit 

 for Section K (Botany) on Tuesday, Sept. 29. On Wednesday, Sept. 30, 



