'In saying this, I no doubt then thought I was speaking somewhat hyperbolically, but from the close attention I have paid to the subject of internal-combustion engines, and from the way in which that attention has revealed a continuous and, year by year, a largely increasing development of such engines, I feel assured that although there may still be steam engines remaining in work in 1931, the output of steam engines in that year will be but small as compared with the output of internal-combustion engines.

I wish to keep alive the interest of the Association in this subject, and for this purpose I should be glad to be allowed to now present to the Association 50%., which I suggest should be invested in 2 per cent. Selfaccumulative Consols, amounting in 1931 to about 100%., which sum, or whatever other sum may be to the credit of the account at that time, I should like to be paid as an honorarium to a gentleman to be selected by the Council to prepare a Paper having my utterances in 1881 as a sort of text, and dealing with the whole question of the prime movers of 1931, and especially with the then relation between steam engines and internalcombustion engines.

'I enclose a cheque drawn in your favour for 501.

'Believe me to be, yours very truly,

FREDERICK BRAMWELL.

'Professor James Dewar, M.A., LL.D, F.R.S., &c., &c., 'President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.'

The Council, having been informed by Dr. D. H. Scott that he does not intend to offer himself for re-election as General Secretary after the Southport Meeting, desire to record their sense of the valuable services he has rendered to the Association during the years he has held that office.

The Council recommend that Professor W. A. Herdman, D.Sc., F.R.S., be appointed General Secretary in succession to Dr. D. H. Scott,

In accordance with the regulations the retiring Members of the Council will be :

By Seniority.

Captain E. W. Creak.

Hon. Sir C. W. Fremantle.

Professor W. D. Halliburton.

By least Attendance.
Sir Oliver Lodge.
Professor Sollas.

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 :

Keltie, J. Scott, Esq., LL.D.

Macalister, Professor A., F.R.S

*McKendrick, Professor J. G., F.R.S.

*Noble, Sir A., Bart., K.C.B., F.R.S.

Perkin, Professor W. H., F.R.S.

Perry, Professor John, F.R.S.

Price, L. L., Esq., M.A.

Seward, A. C., Esq., F.R.S.

Tilden, Professor W. A., F.R S.
Watts, Professor W. W., F.G.S.

Wolfe-Barry, Sir John, K.C.B., F R.S. *Woodward, Dr. A. S., F.R.S.

COMMITTEES APPOINTED BY THE GENERAL COMMITTEE AT THE SOUTHPORT MEETING IN SEPTEMBER 1903.

1. Receiving Grants of Money.

Subject for Investigation or Purpose

Members of the Committee

Grants

SECTION A.-MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS.

Making Experiments for improv-
ing the Construction of Practical
Standards for use in Electrical
Measurements

Seismological Observations.

To co-operate with the Royal Meteorological Society in initiating an Investigation of the Upper Atmosphere by means of Kites.

To co-operate with the Committee

of the Falmouth Observatory in their Magnetic Observations.

Chairman.-Lord Rayleigh.
Secretary.-Dr. R. T. Glazebrook.
Lord Kelvin, Professors W. E.
Ayrton, J. Perry, W. G. Adams,
and G. Carey Foster, Sir Oliver
Lodge, Dr. A. Muirhead,
Sir W. H. Preece, Profes-
sors J. D. Everett and A.
Schuster, Dr. J. A. Fleming,
Professor J. J. Thomson, Dr.
W. N. Shaw, Dr. J. T. Bot-
tomley, Rev. T. C. Fitzpatrick,
Dr. G. Johnstone Stoney, Pro-
fessor S. P. Thompson, Mr. J.
Rennie, Principal E. H. Griffiths,
Sir A. W. Rücker, Professor H.
L. Callendar, and Mr. G.
Matthey.

Chairman.-Professor J. W. Judd,
Secretary.-Mr. J. Milne.
Lord Kelvin, Professor T. G.
Bonney, Mr. C. V. Boys, Pro-
fessor G. H. Darwin, Mr.
Horace Darwin, Major L. Dar-
win, Professor J. A. Ewing,
Dr. R. T. Glazebrook, Professor
C. G. Knott, Professor R.
Meldola, Mr. R. D. Oldham,
Professor J. Perry, Mr. W. E.
Plummer, Professor J. H.
Poynting, Mr. Clement Reid,
Mr. Nelson Richardson, and
Professor H. H. Turner.

Chairman.-Dr. W. N. Shaw.
Secretary.-Mr. W. H. Dines.
Mr. D. Archibald, Mr. C. Ver-
non Boys, Dr. A. Buchan, Dr.
R. T. Glazebrook, Dr. H. R. Mill,
and Dr. A. Schuster.

Chairman.-Sir W. H. Preece.
Secretary. Dr. R. T. Glazebrook.
Professor W. G. Adams, Captain
Creak, Mr. W. F. Fox, Professor
A. Schuster, and Sir A. W.
Rücker.