vi RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. 
SUBSCRIPTIONS. 
The amount of the Annual Subscription shall be One Pound, 
to be paid in advance upon admission ; and the amount of the 
composition in lieu thereof, Five Pounds. 
Subscriptions shall be received by the Treasurer or Secre- 
taries. 
If the annual subscription of any Member shall have been in 
arrear for two years, and shall not be paid on proper notice, he 
shall cease to be a member ; but it shall be in the power of the 
Committee or Council to reinstate him, on payment of arrears. 
MEETINGS. 
The Association shall meet annually, for one week, or longer. 
The place of each Meeting shall be appointed by the General 
Committee at the previous Meeting; and the Arrangements 
for it shall be entrusted to the Officers of the Association. 
GENERAL COMMITTEE*. 
The General Committee shall sit during the time of the 
Meeting, or longer, to transact the business of the Association. 
It shall consist of all Members present, who have communicated 
any scientific Paper to a Philosophical Society, which Paper 
has been printed in its Transactions, or with its concurrence. 
Members of Philosophical Institutions, being Members of 
this Association, who may be sent as Deputies to any Meeting 
of the Association, shall be Members of the Committee for that 
Meeting, the number being limited to two from each Institution. 
SECTIONAL COMMITTEES. 
The General Committee shall appoint, at each Meeting, 
Committees, consisting severally of the Members most conver- 
sant with the several branches of Science, to advise together for 
the advancement thereof. 
The Committees shall report what subjects of investigation 
they would particularly recommend to be prosecuted during the 
ensuing year, and brought under consideration at the next 
Meeting. 
* The constitution of the General Committee was discussed at Liverpool, . 
and at the close of the meeting notice was given, that attention would be 
directed to the reconsideration of the laws of the constitution of the General 
Committee at the next meeting of the Association in Newcastle. 
