BYE-LAWS. IX 



day, collect the papers that have been read and hand them to the 

 Assistant Secretary, together with a note explaining the cause of 

 absence of any paper not so handed over. 



12. Sectional Officers shall do their utmost to ensure punctual com- 

 mencement and termination of the Section's daily proceedings; and, 

 in drafting the programme for the next day, the Committee shall 

 endeavour to allot a specified time to the reading and discussion of 

 each paper, in order to prevent other Sections or the Association as 

 a whole being inconvenienced in consequence of delays. 



III. Bye-laws for the Affiliation of Scientific and Kindred Societies. 



Philosophical and Scientific Societies, and other Associations of a 

 kindred character may, on application to, and with the approval of 

 the Council, affiliate with the South African Association for the 

 Advancement of Science on the following conditions: — 



1. That as a Society can only be affiliated on the approval of the 

 Council, no minimum of membership of such Society need be specified. 



2. That each Society shall pay the Association a minimum fee of 

 £5 for a strength of 50 members or less, and a further £1 for each 

 additional 10 or portion of 10 members. 



3. That such Society shall be entitled to one copy of the South 

 Afrcan Journal of Science for each £1 10s. paid to the Association. 



4. That such Society may, if it has a strength of 50 members, be 

 represented on the Council of the Association by its President or such 

 other member as may be nominated for the purpose. 



5. That all members of affiliated Societies may join the Association 

 as ordinary members, with full privileges, at a reduced annual sub- 

 scripton of 25s. 



6. That affiliated Societies shall be asked to take into consideration 

 the admission of members of the Association into their Societies at a 

 reduced subscription. 



7. That papers contributed to affiliated Societies may, on recom- 

 mendation of both their own Council and that of the Association, be 

 printed in the Association's Journal of Science, after which the 

 authors shall be entitled to reprints on the usual terms. 



