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request for such information with regard to the Society as may be 

 desirable. 



" (5). There shall be inserted in the annual Report of the Asso- 

 ciation a List, in an abbreviated form, of the papers published by 

 the Corresponding Societies during the past twelve months which 

 contain the results of the local scientific work conducted by them ; 

 those papers only being included which refer to subjects coming 

 under the cognisance of one or other of the various Sections of 

 the Association. 



" (6). A Corresponding Society shall have the right to nominate 

 any one of its members, who is also a member of the Association, as 

 its Delegate to the annual meeting of the Association, who shall 

 be for the time a member of the General Committee. The ap- 

 pointment of a Delegate to any annual meeting must be formally 

 notified to the Secretary of the Association by the Secretary of the 

 Corresponding Society not later than the first of July preceding 

 that meeting. 



" CONFERENCE OF DELEGATES OF CORRESPONDING SOCIETIES. 



" (7). The Delegates of the various Corresponding Societies 

 shall constitute a Conference, of which the Chairman, Vice-chair- 

 men, and Secretaries shall be annually appointed by the Council, 

 and of which the members of the Corresponding Societies Com- 

 mittee shall be ex-officio members. 



" The Conference of Delegates shall be summoned by the 

 Secretary of the Association to hold one or more meetings during 

 the annual meeting of the Association, and shall be empowered to 

 invite any member or associate to take part in the meeting. 



" The Secretaries of each Section shall be instructed to transmit 

 to the Secretaries of the Conference of Delegates copies of any 

 recommendations forwarded by the Presidents of Sections to the 

 Committee of Recommendations bearing upon matters in which 

 the co-operation of Corresponding Societies is desired ; and the 

 Secretaries of the Conference of Delegates shall invite the authors 

 of these recommendations to attend the meetings of the Confer- 

 ence, and to give verbal explanations of their objects, and of the 

 precise way in which they desire to have them carried into effect. 



" It shall be the duty of the Conference of Delegates to make 

 themselves familiar with the purport of the several recommendations 

 as brought before the Conference, in order that they and others who 

 take part in the meetings may be able to bring the recommenda- 

 tions clearly and favourably before their respective Societies. The 



