XX REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1937-38 



Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1940, in Belfast in 1941 or any year nearly 

 following, in 1942 in Birmingham. As previously reported, there is 

 also an invitation to meet in Swansea in any convenient year. In view 

 of informal discussion as to the possibility of an invitation from Australia 

 for the year 1942, the General Committee should be made aware that 

 such an invitation will not be forthcoming. 



Miscellanea. 



Scientific Delegation in India.— A. narrative report of the activities of 

 the Scientific Delegation in India is annexed to this Report of the Council. 



Proposed Overseas Delegation Fund. — The General Committee last 

 year granted a sum not exceeding ^1,000 from the general funds of the 

 Association towards the expenses of the Scientific Delegation in India. 

 In the event, it was necessary to use only £217 of this sum. The Council, 

 recognising the great success of the Indian visit, and believing that 

 similar opportunities may arise to send delegations elsewhere, and that, if 

 arising, advantage should by all means be taken of them, now recommend 

 to the General Committee that the unexpended balance of the above 

 grant should be held as the nucleus of a fund from which to assist expenses 

 of such delegations. 



British Science Guild Lectures. — Prof. H. L. Hawkins was appointed 

 to deliver the Alexander Pedler Lecture for 1939 at the Worthing Congress 

 of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies, and did so on June 24. 



Dr. H. Spencer Jones, F.R.S., was appointed to deliver the Norman 

 Lockyer Lecture on December 6. 



British Science Guild : South Australian Handbooks. — Following upon 

 the incorporation of the Guild into the Association, the important \Vork 

 of the Handbooks Committee of the South Australian branch of the 

 Guild was brought to the notice of the Council, and it was resolved that, 

 while no financial aid could be offered to assist in the production of forth- 

 coming books, an expression of the Council's ' appreciation of the great 

 value of the handbooks of the flora and fauna of South Australia ' should 

 be recorded and conveyed to the Committee. 



Geology in Schools. — During the past year the Association's two reports 

 on the teaching of geology in schools have been distributed to appropriate 

 educational authorities, together with an expression of the Council's 

 hope that careful consideration would be given to the question of in- 

 troducing geology into the school curriculum, either by inclusion in a 

 course of general elementary science or as a separate subject. 



Discussion on Planning the Land of Britain. — ^Reprints of this discussion, 

 which took place at the Nottingham Meeting last year and appears in 

 the Report of that Meeting, have been widely circulated to planning 

 authorities and organisations interested in this subject. 



Scientific Advisory Committee of the Trades Union Congress.— The 

 Trades Union Congress asked for the co-operation of the Association in 

 proposing names of scientific workers who might be invited by the 

 Congress to serve on a Scientific Advisory Committee. The General 



