REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1929-30. 



Obituary. 



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

 office-bearers and supporters : — 



Prof. J. O. Arnold. 



Rev. Canon H. J. D. Astley. 



Rt. Hon. the Earl of Balfour, 



ex-president. 

 Rev. J. 0. Bevan. 

 Sir Edward Brabrook, 



former member of Council. 

 Lady Bragg. 

 Prof. H. L. Callendar. 

 ]VIr. G. G. Chisholm. 

 Major P. G. Craigie, 



former member of Council. 

 Dr. W. G. Duffield. 

 Dr. S. Z. de Ferranti. 

 Mr. W. Heape. 

 Prof. Augustine Henry. 

 Col. Sir Thomas Holdich, 



former member of Council. 



Sir E. Ray Lankester, 



ex-president. 

 Major P. A. Macmahon, 



ex-general secretary. 

 Mr. E. T. Newton. 

 Prof. K. J. P. Orton. 

 Prof. W. H. Perkin. 

 Prof. W. Robinson, who had accepted the 



Recordership of Section K (Botany) for 



the Bristol Meeting. 

 Dr. J. M. Duncan Scott. 

 Prof. Sir Baldwin Spencer. 

 Mr. A. A. Campbell Swinton, a benefactor 



of the Association. 

 Prof. Sir George Thane. 

 Prof. H. H. Turner, ex-general secretary. 

 Mr. H. W. T. Wager. 

 Prof. T. B. Wood. 



The Association was represented at the funeral of Major Macmahon 

 by the Astronomer Royal, and at the memorial service for the Earl of 

 Balfour by Sir Josiah Stamp, General Treasurer. 



Representation. 



II. — Representatives of the Association 

 follows : — 



Cape University College Centenary . 



National Conference for the Preservation 

 of the Countryside .... 



North-Western Naturalists' Union : meet- 

 ing on proposed formation . 



American Society of Mechanical Engineers: 

 50th Anni versary .... 



Fresh-water Biological Association : meet- 

 ing to consider establishment of research 

 station ...... 



Technical Committee on Nomenclature 

 formed by British Engineering Stan- 

 dards Association .... 



Commemoration of the Centenarj' of 

 Belgian Independence : Opening of new 

 buildings, University of Brussels ; 

 Journees Medicales, Institut Pasteur ; 

 Congres National des Sciences 



International Zoological Congress, Padua. 



Faraday Centenary Joint Committee 



have been appointed as 



Lady Sherrington, M. I'Abbe 

 Breuil 



Dr. Vaughan Cornish 



Prof. F. E. Weiss 



Major P. J. Cowan 



Dr. W. T. Caiman 



Sir James Henderson 



Prof. G. H. F. Nuttall 

 Dr. F. A. Bather 

 Dr. F. E. Smith, Mr. 0. J. R. 

 Howarth 



