RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION, 



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 sliall 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 Asso- 

 ciation, 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. 



COMMITTEES OF SCIENCE. 



The General Committee shall appoint, at each Meeting, Committees, 

 consisting severally of the Members most conversant 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. They 

 shall engage their own Members, or others, to undertake such inves- 

 tigations ; and where the object admits of being assisted by the exer- 

 tions of scientific bodies, they shall state the particulars in which it 

 might be desirable for the General Committee to solicit the co-opera- 

 tion of such bodies. 



The Committees shall procure 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. 



LOCAL COMMITTEES. 



Local Committees shall be appointed, where necessary, by the General 

 Committee, or by the Officers of the Association, to assist in promoting 

 its objects. 



Committees shall have the power of adding to their numbers those 

 Members of the Association whose assistance they may desire. 



OFFICERS. 



A President, two Vice-Presidents, two or more Secretaries, and a 

 Treasurer, shall be annually appointed by the General Committee. 



