The President referred to two matters left over from the meeting at Cambridge, Mass, in 1932, viz. (a) the formation of a small sub-committee on Martian Nomenclature, and (b) the appointment of a Secretary to deal with the work on the physical study of comets. He had requested Messrs Antoniadi, Lampland, and Maggini to form the Committee on Martian Nomenclature, but the question was difficult and complicated, and it had not yet been found possible to come to a conclusion apart from the acceptance of the nomenclature of Schiaparelli as an agreed basis.