REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1936-37 xxi 



A maintenance grant of £2° was made from the Leicester and Leicester- 

 shire Fund to Mr. H. O. Chaplin, of University College, Leicester, to 

 enable him to carry on research into the role of the resonating hydrogen 

 atom as a causative factor in molecular association. 



Following upon the resolution reported last year, to use the donation 

 of £10$ from the Local Committee for the Norwich Meeting, 1935, for 

 grants for researches of special interest in East Anglia, the following 

 grants were made from that fund : — 



To the Norfolk Research Committee, for excavation of West £ 



Rudham tumulus ........ 30 



To the same, for investigation of post-glacial deposits of East 



Norfolk .......... 40 



To Mr. A. S. Watt, for investigation of cyclic phenomena in the 



vegetation of Breckland ....... 30 



Vin. — ^A final payment of £24^ ^^^ been received under the Herbert 

 Spencer Bequest, bringing the total to ^(^1241. 



As reported last year, the Council adopted a proposal, supported by the 

 Down House Committee, that the sum of ;^5oo should be earmarked to 

 meet temporarily the cost of repairs and other works on the Down House 

 property, and the provision of facilities for scientific work there as occasion 

 should arise. This matter is referred to in the Report of the Down House 

 Committee, annexed to this present Report of the Council. 



The Council empowered the General Treasurer to expend from the 

 Spencer Bequest a sum not exceeding ,Cioo» if necessary, by way of grant 

 in aid of travelling expenses for a representative of the Association to 

 attend the Denver Meeting of the American Association, June 21-26, 

 1937 (see above, § V). 



It may be recorded here that the terms of the bequest, while leaving 

 the Council a wide discretion as to the disposal of the money ' for the 

 work or objects or purposes ' of the Association, prescribes that no part 

 of it ' shall be utilised in any way for purpose of endowment but on the 

 contrary shall within the period of five years from the date of payment . . . 

 be expended.' The date of receipt of the final payment was November 3, 

 1936. 



The Council, on receipt of the final payment, forwarded an expression 

 of their thanks to the trustees under the will. 



President (1938), General Officers, General Committee, 



AND Council. 



IX. — The Council's nomination to the Presidency of the Association 

 for the year 1938 (Cambridge Meeting) will be announced to the General 

 Committee at the Nottingham Meeting. 



X. — The General Officers have been nominated by the Council as 

 follows : — 



General Treasurer, Prof. P. G. H. Boswell, F.R.S. 



General Secretaries, Prof. F. T. Brooks, F.R.S. , Prof. Allan Ferguson. 



