REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1935-36 xxxiii 



Quinquennial Congress of Universities of 



the Empire, Cambridge, July 13-17 . Mr. F. T. Brooks, 



F.R.S., General Sec- 

 retary. 



Resolutions and Recommendations. 



V. — 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 1935, p. xlvii. 



(a) The Council, on learning that the late Prof. J. H. Ashworth, 

 F.R.S., had presented a fuller version of his paper on the life of Charles 

 Darwin as a student in Edinburgh to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 

 procured reprints for preservation at Down House and for distribution 

 as requisite. (Resolution of the General Committee.) 



(b) The Council appointed a watching committee to co-operate, as 

 occasion should arise, with the Ministry of Health Committee on 

 Inland Water Survey. (Resolution of Sections A, Mathematical and 

 Physical Sciences ; C, Geology ; E, Geography ; G, Engineering.) 



(c) The Council communicated to the Ministry of Transport the 

 resolution on the silencing of motor vehicles recommended by Sections 

 A (Mathematical and Physical Sciences) and G (Engineering), excepting 

 the concluding paragraph. 



(d) The Council appointed a committee, and invited representatives 

 thereon from other institutions, to consider what steps could be taken, 

 in co-operation with similar bodies in other countries, to assist in giving 

 effect to the legislation of the Government of Ecuador relating to the 

 preservation of the fauna of the Galapagos Islands. (Resolution of 

 Section D, Zoology.) 



In connection with the above, Prof. W. W. Watts, F.R.S. (President, 

 1935), communicated to the Council a cablegram received from the 

 present H.M.S. Beagle on the day of the centenary of Darwin's landing 

 from the vessel of that name in the Galapagos Islands. The cablegram 

 was in the following terms : — 



To-day one hundred years ago our most distinguished passenger 

 landed. The present Beagle salutes the British Association the 

 Trustees of Science. 



The President stated that he had forwarded a reply as follows : — 



Deeply appreciate your message referring Darwin's landing from 

 Beagle. Good luck to present ship. 



(e) After consideration of the recommendation of Section F 

 (Economics), supported by Section J (Psychology), that the Association 

 might indicate the importance which it attaches to the development of 

 the social sciences by appointing a third General Secretary, who would 

 be specially associated with this group of studies, the Council resolved 

 to appoint a committee to consider how the Association might indicate 



