EOYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. LXXV 



The ordinary committee of the section shall be limited to three in number, and consist of the 

 officers of the section or any members that the section may select to make up the number. 



IT. — Reading of Pajjers. 



I. — The representatives of each section in the Council shall be the judges of the papers to be ac- 

 cepted or rejected. No paper shall be read in any section, at any genei'al meeting of the Society, 

 unless it has been presented, either in full or in abstract, at least three weeks before the first day of 

 the meeting, and formally accepted by the Council, in accordance with rule X of the Society, except 

 by special permission of the Council. The publication of any paper not so accepted, as having been 

 read before or presented to it, may be disavowed by the Society. 



ir. — No paper already published shall be accepted by the Society except in cases where it shall 

 have been entirely recast. 



III. — A programme containing the titles of papers to be read shall be printed and sent to the 

 members of the Society at least one week before the time of meeting. 



IV. — It shall be the duty of the Secretaries of each section to prepare before each day's meeting 

 a list of the papers to be presented to each section, with the names of the authors and the time de- 

 manded for their reading. These lists shall be printed and made public each morning before the time 

 fixed for the meeting. 



IS. — Publication of Papers. 



I. — The author shall revise his MS. after reading, to prepare it for the press. 



II. — The first proof in galley shall be sent to the author, and also a revise in galley. 



III. — The matter shall then be put into page, and a proof sent to the Secretary of the section to 

 which it belongs, who will sign the proof when he has corrected it. Should the author demand it, he 

 may see a proof in page. 



IV. — The Chairman of the Printing Committee or his deputy will sign the final revise, and will 

 see that conformity in headings and in type is observed. 



V. — If the authors of papers are to be absent in places not accessible without delay, they shall 

 indicate some person by whom the proofs shall be read, failing which the Secretary of the section 

 shall be responsible for their reading and correction. 



VI. — If, from the absence of the author, the proof of a paper cannot be read by him, and he has 

 named no i-epresentative, and if the Secretary will not read it, the Printing Committee shall not delay 

 the volume for the author's return, but shall omit the paper. 



VII.— All matter in the French language shall be read for literal errors by a French proof-reader 

 skilled in the typographic art, and familiar with the present usage in France. 



