xl REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1935-36 



XVIII. Quinquennial Reports. — It was stated in last year's Report 

 (p. xxv) that the Council had considered suggestions for the publication 

 by the Association of (a) a quinquennial report on the advancement of 

 science, and (b) a short statement for general distribution, summarising 

 the various activities of the Association. Effect has been given to these 

 proposals. 



Messrs. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons will publish in the autumn, on behalf 

 of the Association, and without cost to it, the first quinquennial review 

 of the progress of science (1931-35), by a number of authors, to whom 

 the Council take this opportunity of expressing their gratitude. 



The short statement on the activities of the Association, referred to 

 above, was drafted in the office and has been issued under the title Five 

 Years' Retrospect. The Council here record their gratitude to sectional 

 Recorders for kindly reading this statement in draft. 



XIX. Overseas Representatives. — -The Council resolved that a letter 

 should be issued, with the preliminary programme of the Annual Meeting, 

 to Dominion and Colonial universities and research institutions, indicating 

 that members of their scientific staffs on leave in England would be 

 welcome as guests at Annual Meetings. 



XX. Earth Pressures Committee. — A letter has been received from the 

 Institution of Civil Engineers, proposing that the work of the Earth 

 Pressures Committee should be taken over by the Institution, and stating 

 that the Council of the Institution had authorised the contribution of 

 £200 per annum for the next two years in order that this research might 

 be continued at the Building Research Station, with the existing com- 

 mittee as a sub-committee of the Institution's research committee. 

 A letter from Mr. F. Wentworth-Sheilds, Secretary of the Committee, 

 was also received. The Council resolved to accept the proposal, and ex- 

 pressed their satisfaction to the Institution and to Mr. Wentworth-Sheilds. 



XXI. A Sequel to the Norwich Meeting.— Prof. W. W. Watts, F.R.S. 

 (President, 1935), informed the Council that in response to his personal 

 appeal for contributions from visiting members at the Norwich Meeting 

 toward the restoration of the cathedral cloisters there, a sum of £140 10s. 

 had been received. 



XXII. Armorial Bearings. — A suggestion has been made that the 

 Association should possess armorial bearings, and the Council are making 

 sympathetic inquiry into the possibility of giving effect thereto. 



Down House. 



XXIII. The following report for the year 1935-36 has been received 

 from the Down House Committee : — 



The number of visitors to Down House during the year ending June 6, 

 1936, has been 7,022, compared with 6,658 in 1934-35. 



