The Council received an invitation from the University and Citizens of Padua to appoint a delegate to attend the celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of the appointment of Galileo to the Chair of Mathematics in the University of Padua, and in accordance with this request they appointed Mr. Ludwig Mond, F.R.S., to join in this celebration. The Report of the corresponding Societies Committee has been received, and will be presented to the General Committee. The Corresponding Societies Committee, consisting of Mr. Francis Galton, Professor R. Meldola, Sir Douglas Galton, Sir Rawson Rawson, Dr. J. G. Garson, Sir J. Evans, Mr. J. Hopkinson, Mr. W. Whitaker, Mr. G. J. Symons, Mr. W. Topley, Professor T. G. Bonney, Mr. T. V. Holmes, Mr. E. B. Poulton, Mr. Cuthbert Peek, and the Rev. Canon Tristram, is hereby nominated for reappointment by the General Committee. The Council nominate Dr. J. G. Garson, Chairman, Mr. G. J. Symons, F.R.S., Vice-Chairman, and Mr. T. V. Holmes, F.G.S., Secretary, to the Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies to be held during the Meeting at Nottingham. An Index to the Reports of the Association from 1831 to 1860 was published in 1864, of which copies are still to be obtained. Mr. Griffith has for some time been engaged on the arduous task of preparing an Index to the Reports from 1861 to 1890. The Council are glad to be able to announce that this new Index is now in type, and will be on sale at a cost of 15s. within a few weeks. It is evident that the utility of the Annual Reports will be much increased, now that their contents are made more readily accessible by means of a good index. In accordance with the regulations the retiring Members of the Council will be Sir M. E. Grant-Duff. Prof. Schäfer. The Council recommend the re-election of the other ordinary Members of the Council, with the addition of the gentlemen whose names are distinguished by an asterisk in the following list: COMMITTEES APPOINTED BY THE GENERAL COMMITTEE AT THE NOTTINGHAM MEETING IN SEPTEMBER 1893. 1. Receiving Grants of Money. Subject for Investigation or Purpose Members of the Committee Grants Making Experiments for improving the Construction of Practical Standards for use in Electrical Measurements. The Application of Photography to the Elucidation of Meteorological Phenomena. [Last year's grant renewed.] For Calculating Tables of certain Mathematical Functions, and, if necessary, for taking steps to carry out the Calculations, and to publish the results in an accessible form. Considering the best Methods of Recording the Direct Intensity of Solar Radiation. Chairman.-Professor G. Carey Foster. Secretary.-Mr. R. T. Glazebrook. Lord Kelvin, Professors W. E. Ayrton, J. Perry, W. G. Adams, and Oliver J. Lodge, Lord Rayleigh, Dr. John Hopkinson, Dr. A. Muirhead, Messrs. W. H. Preece and Herbert Taylor, Professors J. D. Everett and A. Schuster, Dr. J. A. Fleming, Professors G. F. FitzGerald, G. Chrystal, and J. J. Thomson, Mr. W. N. Shaw, Dr. J. T. Bottomley, Rev. T. C. Fitzpatrick, Professor J. Viriamu Jones, Dr. G. Johnstone Stoney, Professor S. P. Thompson, and Mr. G. Forbes. Chairman. Mr. G. J. Symons. Secretary.-Mr. A. W. Clayden. Professor R. Meldola and Mr. John Hopkinson. Chairman.-Lord Rayleigh. Secretary.-Professor A. Lodge. Lord Kelvin, Professor A. Cayley, Professor B. Price, Dr. J. W. L. Glaisher, Professor A. G. Greenhill, and Professor W. M. Hicks. Chairman.-Sir G. G. Stokes. Secretary.-Professor H. McLeod. Professor A. Schuster, Mr. G. Johnstone Stoney, Sir H. E. Roscoe, Captain W. de W. Abney, Mr. C. Chree, Mr. G. J. Symons, and Mr. W. E. Wilson. |