IV CONSTITUTION. 



Council shall empower the local Members of Council in that Centre to 

 expend sums not exceeding in the aggregate 10 per centum of the 

 amount of Annual Subscriptions raised in that Centre. 



(g) The whole of the accounts of the Association, i.e., the local as 

 well as the general accounts, shall be audited annually by an auditor 

 appointed by th e Council, and the balance-sheet shall be submitted to 

 the Council at the first meeting thereafter, and be printed in the Annual 

 Report of the Association. 



X.— SECTIONS OF THE ASSOCIATION. 



The Scientific Work of the Association shall be transacted under 

 such sections as shall be constituted from time to time by the Council, 

 and the constitution of such Sections shall be published in the Journal. 



The Sections shall deal with the following Sciences and such others 

 as the Council may add thereto from time to time : — Agriculture ; 

 Anthropology and Ethnology ; Archaeology ; Architecture ; Anatomy ; 

 Astronomy ; Bacteriology ; Botany ; Chemistry ; Education ; Engineering ; 

 Eugenics ; Geodesy and Surveying ; Geography ; Geology and Mineralogy ; 

 Ii ligation; Mathematics; Mental Science; Meteorology; Philology; 

 Physics ; Physiology ; Political Economy ; Sanitary Science ; Sociology ; 

 Statistics; Zoology. 



XI— RESEARCH COMMITTEES. 



(a) Grants may be made by the Association to Committees or to 

 individuals for the promotion of Scientific research. 



(b) Every proposal for special research, or for a grant of money in 

 aid of special research shall primarily be considered by the Sectional 

 Committee dealing with the science specially concerned, and if such 

 proposal be approved, shall be referred to the Council. 



(c) A Sectional Committee may recommend to Council the 

 appointment of a Research Committee, composed of Members of the 

 Association, to conduct research or to administer a grant in aid of 

 research. 



(d) In recommending the appointment of Research Committees, the 

 Sectional Committee shall specifically name all Members of such 

 Committees ; and cne of them, who has notified his willingness to accept 

 the office, shall be appointed to act as Secretary. The number of 

 Members appointed to serve on a Research Committee shall be as small 

 as is consistent ,with its efficient working. 



(e) All recommendations adopted by Sectional Committees shall be 

 forwarded without delay to the Council for consideration and decision. 



(f) Research Committees shall be appointed for one year only, but 

 if the work of a Research Committee cannot be completed in that 

 year, application may be made, through a Sectional Committee, at the 

 next Annual Session for re-appointment, with or without a grant — or a 

 further grant — of money. 



(g) Every Research Committee, and every individual, to whom a 

 grant had beer, made, shall present to the following Annual Meeting a 

 report of the progress which has been made, together with a statement 

 of the sums which have been expended. Any balance shall be returned 

 to the General Treasurer. 



(h) In each Research Committee, the Secretary thereof shall be 

 the only person entitled to call on the Treasurer for such portions of 

 the sums granted as may from time to time be required. 



XII.— SPECIAL COMMITTEES. 



The Council shall have power to appoint Special Committees to deal 

 with such subjects as it may approve, to draft regulations for any such 

 Committees, and to vote money to assist the Committees in their work. 



XIII— SECTIONAL COMMITTEES. 



(a) The Sectional Committees shall consist of a President, two 

 Vice-Presidents, two or more Secretaries, and such other persons as the 



