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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. 



IX. — The Council made the following grants from funds under their 

 control : — 



From the Caird Fund. 



Committee on Seismology ..... 

 ,, ,, Mathematical Tables 



,, ,, Zoological Record 



,, ,, Naples Table .... 



,, ,, Rods and Cones in Retinas of Animals 



£ 

 150 



So 

 50 

 10 



From the Bernard Hobson Fund. 



Committee on Reptile-bearing Oolite of Stow-on-the-Wold . . 30 



,, ,, Critical Geological Sections : such part as the income 



allows of a contingent grant of £40. 



From the Leicester and Leicestershire Fund. 



Committee on Routine Manual Factor in Mechanical Ability . . 30 



,, ,, Chronology of the World Crisis .... 10 



„ ,, Noise ......... 10 



., ,, Promotion of Educational Research .... 5 



British Science Guild. 



X.— In 1927-28 a proposal for the amalgamation of the British Science 

 Guild and the British Association was before the Council and the General 

 Committee of the Association. Certain conditions attached to the 

 proposal did not fully commend themselves to either party ; but the 

 proposal was not rejected in principle, and it was recorded in the Report 

 of the Council, as adopted by the General Committee in 1928, that 

 ' further action by the Council of the British Science Guild is awaited.' 

 Such action has now been taken, and the Council, after full inquiry and 

 report by the General Officers, recommend the incorporation of the Guild 

 into the Association under the conditions set out below. The General 

 Officers take this opportunity of acknowledging the generous collabora- 

 tion of Sir Richard Gregory and Sir Albert Howard throughout the 

 negotiations. 



The stated object of the British Science Guild is ' to promote the 

 application of scientific method and results to social problems and public 

 affairs.' The same object is implicit in those of the Association, and the 

 programmes of its recent meetings have given evidence of a greater 

 concern for these problems than was commonly exhibited in former years. 

 It is believed that the proposed union of the two bodies would strengthen 

 the Association in the discharge of its public functions, and it is suggested 

 that, through the Committee proposed below, the Council might be 

 assisted in keeping itself informed as to matters concerning the application 

 of scientific method and results to social problems and public affairs. 



The capital funds of the Guild, to which reference is made below, would 

 be transferred to the Association after the discharge of certain liabilities. 



