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case of any application made at the Annual Meeting for a grant which may, 

 but will not certainly, be required during the ensuing year. The Council, 

 being in session throughout the year, consider that they can deal with such 

 applications with more precision than is possible at the Annual Meeting. 



In order that the Committee of Recommendations, in considering 

 applications, may be in full possession of the necessary facts, especially in 

 respect of the procedure outlined above, the General Officers have drafted 

 and will issue more detailed forms of application to the Committee, and the 

 Council request the co-operation of the Sectional Officers in completing 

 these. 



It follows from the above expression of the Council's opinion and 

 intentions, that they do not consider that recurrent grants should have any 

 prior claim on the Caird Fund over other grants. 



XII. — The stock held on account of the Bramwell Trust, for an 

 honorarium to be paid to an appointed speaker at the Centenary Meeting 

 on the prime movers of 1931, has been transferred to Sir Alfred Ewing, 

 whose presidential address to Section G (Engineering) was also the 

 lecture under the trust. This trust has now, therefore, been discharged. 



XIII. — At the Centenary Meeting, the General Committee requested 

 the General Officers to report to the Council upon the respective expendi- 

 ture of the Association and of local committees in connection with the 

 annual meetings, with the object of reducing the total cost of the meetings, 

 and of redistributing liabilities hitherto undertaken by the local com- 

 mittees. The Council received and adopted the General Secretaries' 

 Report, in which it was recommended to effect economies by dispensing 

 with the presidential banner and elaborate enamelled badges of member- 

 ship, by incorporating the local programme with the Association's own 

 time-table, and by reducing the bulk of the local handbook, at the same 

 time standardising its format and making the material suitable for inclusion 

 in the Annual Report. 



Publication. 



XIV. — As a natural corollary to questions of publication arising upon 

 the financial matters dealt with in the preceding section of this report, 

 the Council have investigated the whole field of the Association's publica- 

 tions, and have received the report of a Committee thereon. As a result, 

 it is hoped to effect improvements in printing, a more adequate distribu- 

 tion of the Annual Report and other publications, and some economy 

 in cost. 



General Officers and Staff, Council and Committees. 



XV. — The General Officers have been nominated by the Council as 

 follows : — 



General Treasurer, Sir Josiah Stamp. 



General Secretaries, Prof. P. G. H. Boswell, Prof. F. J. M. Stratton. 



The Council received last year from Prof. J. L. Myres an intimation 

 that if then re-appointed as General Secretary, he would not offer himself 

 this year for re-nomination. The Council have now placed upon record 



