PROCEEDINGS FOR 1922 XXXIX 



This action left the active membership of the Section at thirty- 

 six. And in view of the large number of desirable candidates it was 

 decided to ask the Council to allow the Section to fill the four remain- 

 ing vacancies next year. 



The Publication Committee's Report was approved by the 

 Section and presented at one of the General Sessions. Its recom- 

 mendations are as follows: — 



1. (a) At the final session of the Council at the Annual Meeting 

 the editorial committee of each Section shall be informed of the 

 number of pages and plates to be allotted to that section in the 

 Transactions, or the amount, of money available for the same. 



(b) Acting on this information the sectional editorial committee 

 shall, immediately after June 15th, make a choice of the papers to be 

 published and forthwith transmit these directly to the printer. 



(c) In conformity with the rules as to type-setting, etc., the 

 papers shall be immediately set up and proofs sent directly to the 

 authors, with instructions that these must be returned at once. The 

 author's reprints — both those furnished gratis and the additional 

 copies ordered by each author — shall then be run off and sent to 

 him. 



{d) No paper received after June 15th shall be published in the 

 Transactions for the current year. 



(e) In 1923 and subsequent years, throughout the above clauses, 

 r,ead for "June 15th," "the last day of the General Meeting." 



2. For convenience and expedition in editing, for library classi- 

 fication, and to save expense, the Transactions shall be published in 

 two volumes, each bound in paper covers. These volumes shall 

 consist respectively of: (a) the papers of Sections I and II, and (b) the 

 papers of Sections III, IV and V. 



It is further the opinion of your sub-committee that if prompt 

 publication can be secured (as it is believed would occur if the above 

 recommendations be adopted) many of the scientific papers which 

 are at present published in the journals of other countries would be 

 submitted for publication in the Transactions of the Royal Society, 

 and from this might develop a means of more frequent publication 

 and an increase in the scope and usefulness of the Society's work. 

 The sub-committee further recommend to the Section that: — 

 The sectional editorial committee shall consist of an editor, 

 together with an associate editor, w^io shall be appointed from among 

 the fellows who, in virtue of their own work, are known to be interested 

 in the prompt publication of the Transactions, and that the editor 

 report at the Annual Meeting. 



