REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1933-34 XXV 
Ellis presented a cheque for £1,000 as a gift to the Association, being 
unexpended balance of the fund raised locally for the purposes of the 
meeting. ‘The following conditions were proposed :— 
(1) That the sum of £1,000 be given to the British Association for the 
Advancement of Science to be invested by them, the interest to be used 
to assist by scholarship or otherwise a student or students working for 
the advancement of science. 
(2) That the fund be administered solely by the Council of the British 
Association. 
(3) That when possible assistance be given preferably to a Leicester 
or Leicestershire student or worker. 
(4) That the fund be called the ‘ Leicester and Leicestershire Fund,’ 
or in some other way be identified with Leicester and Leicestershire, and 
that it be referred to in each year in the annual statement of the British 
Association. 
It was resolved that the Council accept with gratitude from the Com- 
mittee for the Leicester Meeting (1933) their gift of the sum of £1,000 to 
the Association, to form the Leicester and Leicestershire Fund for the 
prosecution of scientific work ; that the terms of trust accompanying the 
gift be accepted, and that the Council record their appreciation of the 
action of the committee in thus confirming, in a manner without precedent 
in the history of the Association, their interest in the advancement of 
science. 
XIII. Grants—The Council made the following grants from funds 
under their control :— 
From the Caird Fund. 
£ 
Committee on Seismology ; - 100 
- ,», Critical Sections in Palzeozoic Rocks . 20 (contingent) 
5 », Plymouth Table < s ? F 50° 
his ,, Zoological Record . . j E 50 
- », Naples Table . - 50 
te , Fresh Water Biological Station, Winder- 
mere (out of total grant of £75) ee AO 
aa », Derbyshire Caves ; ; i 25 
, », Prehistoric Site in Rio Tirito : 15 (contingent) 
bs ,, Routine Manual Factor in Mechanical 
Ability . i ? F 5 } 4,420 3 
(The above gave effect to recommendations made at the Leicester 
Meeting.) 
Committee on Mathematical Tables, toward the pub- 
‘lication of Bessel Function Tables . ; . £100 
Contribution toward expenses of Sixth International 
Congress for Scientific Management : foe 5S 
Committee on Human SeeeRy of tO ce Africa, 
not exceeding . : : eA 
From the Bernard Hobson Fund. 
Committee on Character of the Paleozoic Rocks under- 
lying the Carboniferous of the Craven area. e306 
(Giving effect to a recommendation made at the Leicester Meeting.) 
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