REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1936-37 xix 



British National Committee on Geodesy 



and Geophysics .... Dr. H. Jeffreys, F.R.S. 



British National Committee on Geography Prof. R. N. Rudmose- 



Brown. 

 Joint Committee of Anthropological Re- 

 search and Teaching .... Dr. H. S. Harrison. 

 Publications Committee of the Royal 



Society on bibliographical reference . The Secretary. 

 Association Frangaise pour I'Avancement 



des Sciences, Paris, May 18-22 . . Lt.-Col. W. Campbell 



Smith, T.D., M.C. 

 American Association for the Advancement 



of Science, looth iVIeeting, June 21-26 . Prof. N. V. Sidgwick, 



C.B.E., F.R.S. 

 Association Frangaise pour I'Avancement 



des Sciences, Paris, July 24-27 . . Prof. C. S. Spearman, 



F.R.S. 

 Buchan Club, Jubilee Meeting, Peterhead, 



August 7 . . . . . . Prof. J. Ritchie. 



Professor Sidgwick accepted the invitation of the American Association 

 to deliver the Hector Maiben Lecture at the above meeting. 



Resolutions and Recommendations. 



VL — Resolutions and recommendations, referred by the General 

 Committee to the Council for consideration, and, if desirable, for action, 

 were dealt with as follows. The resolutions will be found in the Report 

 for 1936, p. Ixi. 



{a) The following resolution, received from Section B (Chemistry) 

 at the Blackpool Meeting, was considered at a special meeting of the 

 Council : — 



The members of the Committee of Section B, in agreement with the 

 views expressed in their President's address regarding science and 

 warfare, request the General Committee to secure all possible publicity 

 for the following : (i) The extent to which Chemistry is applied for 

 beneficent purposes in connection with the industry of the British 

 nation and the health of its citizens, is enormously greater than the 

 scope of its employment for purposes of warfare. (2) Whilst the 

 individual must remain free to determine his own action in relation to 

 national defence, chemists as a body view with grave concern the 

 increasing use of science for destructive ends. 



After full consideration, and examination of the wording as affecting all 

 Sections, it was resolved by a majority that no action be taken. 



{b) Following upon a resolution of Section C (Geology), the Council 

 considered the report of a Committee of that Section on the teaching 

 of geology in schools, approved its circulation to authorities con- 

 sidering syllabuses about the close of the year 1936, and appointed 

 a committee, under the chairmanship of Prof. W. W. Watts, F.R.S., to 

 consider and deal with any further distribution. 



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