yyji REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1929-30. 



tlie Imperial Institute, the Science Museum, the Victoria and Albert 

 Museum, the Royal College of Music, and the Royal Geographical Society 

 have met with a generous response. 



A preliminary scheme of excursions has been worked out, and the 

 Sections will be informed of it. 



In place of the usual local handbook for the meeting a new edition of 

 ' The British Association : A Retrospect ' is in preparation for distribution 

 to members. 



Sir Alfred Ewing has been appointed ' to prepare a paper . . . dealing 

 with the whole question of the prime movers of 1931, and especially with 

 the then relation between steam engines and internal combustion engines,' 

 under the terms accompanying Sir Frederick Bramwell's gift to the 

 Association (1903). 



Finaiice. 



XI. General Treasurer s Account. — The Council has received reports 

 from the General Treasurer throughout the year. His accounts have 

 been audited and are presented to the General Committee. 



XII. Centenary Fund. — The Council has sanctioned an appeal for a 

 fund, not only to provide for those expenses of the Centenary Meeting 

 which in the case of the ordinary annual meeting are met by a local fund, 

 but also for the more adequate endowment of the Association, especially 

 in consideration of the widening of its activities which has been marked 

 during the closing years of its first century. The Council has had under 

 review the considerations — 



(a) That the acquisition of Down House has made a considerable capital demand 

 upon the Association's funds, and that the existing endowment of the house, generous 

 as it is, does not cover all needs (as indicated in the report of the Down House 

 Committee) ; 



(b) That the Association, with adequate funds, might and ought to relieve the 

 localities where its meetings are held of some of the expenses which now fall upon 

 local funds, and the honorarj' local officers of some of their labours ; 



(c) That the Association should not be limited in its choice of meeting- places, 

 whether at home or in the Dominions, by questions of expense and the amount of 

 support likely to be forthcoming by way of membership ; 



(rf) That the Association should be in a position more effectively to stabilise the 

 assistance it renders to research by way of grants, to junior scientific workers to 

 attend its meetings, and so forth. 



The total sum for which the Council has considered that appeal should 

 be made is £40,000. 



XIII. Cunningham Bequest. — The Association received under the will 

 of the late Lt.-Col. Alan Cunningham a bequest of £2,909 for the prepara- 

 tion of new tables in the theory of numbers. 



XIV. Lamarck Memorial. — The Council made a contribution of £5 55. 

 toward the memorial to Lamarck, for which funds were solicited by the 

 Societe Linneenne du Nord de la France. 



General Officers, Council, and General Committee. 



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

 follows : — 



General Treasurer, Sir Josiah Stamp. 



General Secretaries, Prof. J. L. Myres and Prof. F. J. M. Stratton. 



