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 Of&cers 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 Committees shall recommend Reports on the state and 

 progress of particular Sciences, to be drawn up from time to 

 time by competent persons, for the information of the Annual 

 Meetings. 



