XVIU 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1937-38 



Qi) The Council approved a resolution from the Conference of 

 Delegates of Corresponding Societies on the desirability of establishing 

 through the Corresponding Societies Committee a close liaison with the 

 Association for the Study of Systematics in Relation to General Biology, 

 with a view to the Corresponding Societies undertaking work bearing 

 upon systematic problems. 



Finance. 



The Council have received reports from the General Treasurer 

 throughout the year. His account has been audited and is presented 

 to the General Committee. 



The Council made the following grants from funds under their 

 control : — 



From the Caird Fund. 



Seismological investigations 

 Mathematical tables 

 Critical geological sections 

 Reduction of noise 

 Perseveration and its testing 

 Kent's Cavern, Torquay . 



100 

 200 



25 (contingent) 

 10 (contingent) 

 10 (contingent) 

 5 



From the Bernard Hobson Fund. 



Critical geological sections 

 Oolite of Stow-on-the-Wold 



25 

 25 



From the Leicester and Leicestershire Fund. 



Archaeology of the Fens ...... 25 



Transplant experiments ...... 5 



Organisation of research in Education ... 5 



Gaps in the informative content of Education . . 10 



From the Norwich Fund. 



It was reported that a grant of £40, made last year from the Norwich 

 Fund to the Norfolk Research Conimittee for the investigation of the 

 post-glacial deposits of East Norfolk, would not be required, with the 

 exception of a sum of £2 13s. ()d., the payment of which was authorised. 



The balance of the fund was granted as follows : — 



(<2) To Mr. J. E. Sainty, to continue investigations on the Long £ s. d. 



Barrow at West Rudham, Norfolk . . . .3320 



(b) To Dr. A. S. Watt, to continue work on rhythmic 



phenomena of Breckland plants . . . . .2100 



Corporation Membership. — Messrs. Metropolitan - Vickers Electrical 

 Company, Ltd., and the Educ:.t'onal Instituie of Scotland have been 

 admitted to corporation membership of the Association. 



