xlvi REPORT—1857. 
ciation expire at the ensuing meeting, unless it shall appear by a Report that 
the Recommendations have been acted on, or a continuation of them be 
ordered by the General Committee. 
Tn each Committee, the Member first named is the person entitled to call 
on the Treasurer, John Taylor, Esq., 6 Queen Street Place, Upper Thames 
Street, London, for such portion of the sum granted as may from time to 
time be required. 
In grants of money to Committees, the Association does not contemplate 
the payment of personal expenses to the Members. 
In all cases where additional grants of money are made for the continua- 
tion of Researches at the cost of the Association, the sum named shall be 
deemed to include, as a part of the amount, the specified balance which may 
remain unpaid on the former grant for the same object. 
General Meetings. 
On Wednesday, Aug. 26, at 83 p.M., in the Rotunda, C. G. B. Daubeny, 
M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Botany in the University of Oxford, resigned the 
office of President to the Rev. Humphrey Lloyd, D.D., D.C.L., F.R.S. L. & E., 
V.P.R.I.A., who took the Chair and delivered an Address, for which see 
page xlvii. 
On Thursday Evening the Association was received by the Royal Dublin 
Society. 
On Friday, Aug. 28, at 84 p.m.; in the Rooms of the Royal Dublin 
Society, Prof. W. Thomson, F.R.S., delivered a Discourse on the Atlantic 
Telegraph. 
On Saturday, Aug. 29, at 83 p.m., the Association was received by the 
Royal Irish Academy. 
On Monday, Aug. 31, at 83 p.m., in the Rooms of the Royal Dublin 
Society, the Rev. Dr. Livingstone, D.C.L., delivered a Discourse on his recent 
discoveries in Africa. 
On Tuesday, Sept. 1, at 84 p.m., the Association was received in the 
Castle by His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. 
On Wednesday, Sept. 2, at 3 p.m., the concluding General Meeting took 
place in Trinity College, when the Proceedings of the General Committee, 
and the Grants of Money for scientific purposes, were explained to the 
Members. 
The Meeting was then adjourned to Leeds*. 
* The Meeting is appointed to take place on Wednesday, the 22nd of September, 1858. 
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