yi RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. 



two years, and shall not be paid on proper notice, he shall cease to be a 

 Member. 



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 week of the Meeting, or longer, 

 to transact the business of the Association. It shall consist of the following 

 persons : — 



1. Presidents and Officers for the present and preceding years, with au- 

 thors of Reports in the Transactions of the Association. 



2. Members who have communicated any Paper to a Philosophical Society, 

 which has been printed in its Transactions, and which relates to such subjects 

 as are taken into consideration at the Sectional Meetings of the Association. 



3. Office-bearers for the time being, or Delegates, altogether not exceeding 

 three in number, from any Philosophical Society publishing Transactions. 



4. Office-bearers for the time being, or Delegates, not exceeding three, 

 from Philosophical Institutions established in the place of Meeting, or in any 

 place where the Association has formerly met. 



5. Foreigners and other individuals whose assistance is desired, and who 

 are specially nominated in writing for the Meeting of the year by the Presi- 

 dent and General Secretaries. 



6. The Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries of the Sections are ex 

 officio members of the General Committee for the time being. 



SECTIONAL COMMITTEES. 



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

 sisting 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 par- 

 ticularly 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 par- 

 ticular Sciences, to be drawn up from time to time by competent persons, for 

 the information of the Annual Meetings. 



COMMITTEE OF RECOMMENDATIONS. 



The General Committee shall appoint at each Meeting a Committee, which 

 shall receive and consider the Recommendations of the Sectional Committees, 

 and report to the General Committee the measures which they would advise 

 to be adopted for the advancement of Science. 



All Recommendations of Grants of Money, Requests for Special Re- 

 searches, and Reports on Scientific Subjects, shall be submitted to the Com- 

 mittee of Recommendations, and not taken into consideration by the General 

 Committee unless previously recommended by the Committee of Recommen- 

 dations. 



LOCAL COMMITTEES. 



Local Committees shall be formed by the Officers of the Association to 

 assist in making arrangements for the Meetings. 



Local Committees shall have the power of adding to their numbers those 

 Members of the Association whose assistance they may desire. 



