at Annual Meetings of the Association. Attended by Amount received Sums paid on Account of Old Annual New Annual Associates. Ladies. Foreigners. Total. Members. Members. Grants for 8. d. 1546 16 4 60* 891 185 162 1260 208 5 376 620 0 0 345 18 391 1085 0 0 304 6 7 330 19 480 16 4 734 13 507 15 3 618 18 2698 +006 O NNO N4932 9 * Ladies were not admitted by purchased Tickets until 1843. Including Ladies. 1870 (LIVERPOOL). RECEIPTS. To Balance brought from last Account Received for Life Compositions at Exeter Meeting and since 278 0 £ 8. d. 177 1 0 0 THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. THE GENERAL TREASURER'S ACCOUNT from 18th August 1869 (commencement of EXETER Meeting) to 14th September PAYMENTS. £ s. d. By Expenses of Exeter Meeting, also Sundry Printing, Binding, Advertising, and Incidental Petty Expenses 358 13 3 Annual Subscriptions, ditto ditto ,, Printing, Engraving, and Binding Report of 38th Meeting, Vol. XXXVII. (Norwich) 660 0 7 Zoological Record 74 18 6 British Rainfall. 100 0 0 Thermal Conductivity of Iron &c.. 20 0 0 ... 38 5 0 1870. Mountain Limestone Fossils. Organic Chemical Compounds Mechanical Equivalent of Heat Sept. 14. Balance at London and Westminster Bank £230 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 30 0 0 3 0 0 on account of Report of 39th Meeting, Vol. XXXVIII. (Exeter) Salaries (1 year) Grants made at Exeter Meeting, viz. Maintaining Establishment of Kew Observatory... £600 0 Metrical Committee. Committee on Marine Fauna £3199 13 9 W. SPOTTISWOODE, August 18, 1870. £3199 13 9 OFFICERS AND COUNCIL, 1870–71. TRUSTEES (PERMANENT). Sir RODERICK I. MURCHISON, Bart., K.C.B., G.C.St.S., D.C.L., F.R.S. PRESIDENT. T. H. HUXLEY, LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., Professor of Natural History in the Royal School of Mines. VICE-PRESIDENTS. The Right Hon. LORD DERBY, LL.D., F.R.S. S. R. GRAVES, Esq., M.P. JAMES P. JOULE, Esq., LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S. JOSEPH MAYER, Esq., F.S.A., F.R.G.S. PRESIDENT ELECT. SIR WILLIAM THOMSON, M.A., LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S.L. & E., Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Glasgow. VICE-PRESIDENTS ELECT. His Grace The DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH, K.G., D.C.L., F.R.S. The Right Hon. The LORD PROVOST of Edinburgh. The Right Hon. JOHN INGLIS, D.C.L., LL.D., Lord Justice General of Scotland. Sir ALEXANDER GRANT. Bart., M.A., Principal of the University of Edinburgh. Sir RODERICK I. MURCHISON, Bart., K.C.B., Sir CHARLES LYELL, Bart., D.C.L.. F.R.S., F.G.S. LOCAL SECRETARIES FOR THE MEETING AT EDINBURGH. J. D. MARWICK, Esq., F.R.S.E. LOCAL TREASURER FOR THE MEETING AT EDINBURGH. ORDINARY MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL. NEWMARCH, WILLIAM, Esq., F.R.S. NORTHCOTE,Rt. Hon. Sir STAFFORD II.,Bt.,M.P. RAMSAY, Professor, F.R.S. RANKINE, Professor W. J. M., LL.D., F.R.S. SHARPEY, WILLIAM, M.D., Sec. R.S. SIMON, JOHN, D.C.L., F.R.S. STRANGE, Lieut.-Colonel A., F.R.S. TITE, Sir W., M.P., F.R.S. TYNDALL, Professor, LL.D., F.R.S. EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL. The President and President Elect, the Vice-Presidents and Vice-Presidents Elect, the General and Assistant General Secretarics, the General Treasurer, the Trustees, and the Presidents of former years, viz.: Rev. Professor Sedgwick. The Duke of Devonshire. Sir John F. W. Herschel, Bart. The Earl of Harrowby. GENERAL SECRETARIES. Sir Chas. Lyell, Bart., M.A., LL.D. Dr. T. ARCHER HIRST, F.R.S., F.R.A.S., The Athenæum Club, Pall Mall, London, S.W. ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY. GEORGE GRIFFITH, Esq., M.A., Harrow. GENERAL TREASURER. WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., F.R.G.S., 50 Grosvenor Place, London, S.W. AUDITORS. G. Eusk, Esq., F.R.S. Professor M. Foster, M.D., F.L.S. J. Gwyn Jeffreys, Esq., F.R.S. H OFFICERS OF SECTIONAL COMMITTEES PRESENT AT THE SECTION A.MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS. President.-J. Clerk Maxwell, M.A., F.R.S. L. and E. Vice-Presidents.-J. P. Gassiot, D.C.L., F..R.S.; W. R. Grove, M.A., F.R.S.; Secretaries.-Professor W. G. Adams, M.A.; W. K. Clifford, M.A.; Professor G. SECTION B.-CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY, INCLUDING THEIR APPLICATIONS TO President.-Professor Henry E. Roscoe, B.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., F.C.S. Secretaries.-Professor A. Crum Brown, M.D., F.R.S.E., F.C.S.; A. E. Fletcher, SECTION C.-GEOLOGY. President. Sir Philip de Malpas Grey-Egerton, Bart., M.P., F.R.S., F.G.S. Secretaries.-W. Pengelly, F.R.S., F.G.S.; Rev. H. H. Winwood, M.A., F.G.S.; SECTION D.-BIOLOGY. President.-Professor G. Rolleston, M.A., M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S. Vice-Presidents.--Professor Balfour, M.D., F.R.S.; John Beddoe, M.D.; G. Ben- SECTION E.-GEOGRAPHY AND ETHNOLOGY. President. Sir Roderick I. Murchison, Bart., K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., Vice-Presidents.-Sir Henry Barkly, K.C.B.; Admiral Sir E. Belcher, K.C.B., SECTION F.-ECONOMIC SCIENCE AND STATISTICS. President.-Professor W. Stanley Jevons, M.A. Vice-Presidents.-The Earl of Derby, F.R.S.; William Farr, M.D., D.C.L. F.R.S.; Secretaries.-R. Dudley Baxter, M.A.; Edmund Macrory, M.A.; John Miles Moss, SECTION G.-MECHANICAL SCIENCE. President.-Charles B. Vignoles, President I.C.E., F.R.S., M.R.I.A., F.R.A.S. Vice-Presidents.-Sir W. G. Armstrong, C.B.; Admiral Sir E. Belcher, K.C.B., F.R.G.S.; Sir William Fairbairn, Bart., LL.D., F.R.S.; Thomas Hawksley, V.P.I.C.E.; Professor W. J. Macquorn Rankine, C.E., LL.D., F.R.S.; C. W. Siemens, D.C.L., F.R.S. Secretaries.-H. Bauerman, F.G.S.; P. Le Neve Foster, M.A.; J. T. King, C.E.; Jas. N. Shoolbred, C.E. Report of the Council for the Year 1869–70, presented to the General Committee at Liverpool, on Wednesday, September 14th, 1870. The Council have received the usual reports from the General Treasurer and from the Kew Committee. Their reports for the past year will be laid before the General Committee this day. The Council have to report upon the action they have taken relative to each of the four resolutions referred to them by the General Committee at Exeter. The first of these resolutions was "That the Council be requested to take into their consideration the existing relations between the Kew Committee and the British Association." The Council accordingly appointed a Committee of their own body to examine into these relations. This Committee had before them a special report drawn up by the Kew Committee, and, after due deliberation, they recommended "That the existing relations between the Kew Observatory and the British Association be continued unaltered until the completion, in 1872, of the magnetic and solar decennial period; but that after that date all connexion between them shall cease." The Council adopted this recommendation, and now offer it, as their own, to the General Committee. The second resolution referred to the Council was as follows: "That the full influence of the British Association for the Advancement of Science should at once be exerted to obtain the appointment of a Royal Commission to consider First. The character and value of existing institutions and facilities for scientific investigation, and the amount of time and money devoted to such purposes; Secondly. What modifications or augmentations of the means and facilities that are at present available for the maintenance and extension of science are requisite; and, Thirdly. In what manner these can be best supplied." By a third resolution the Council was "requested to ascertain whether the action of Government in relation to the higher scientific education has been in accordance with the principles of impartiality which were understood to guide them in this matter; and to consider whether that action has been well calculated to utilize and develope the resources of the country for this end, and to favour the free development of the higher scientific education. That the Council be requested to take such measures as may appear to them best calculated to carry out the conclusions to which they may be led by these inquiries and deliberations." The Committee of the Council appointed to consider these two resolutions |