vi RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. 
An admission fee of One Pound is required from all Members 
elected as Annual Subscribers, after the Meeting of 1839, in 
addition to their annual subscription of One Pound. 
Members are entitled to receive copies of any volume of the 
Transactions for two-thirds of the price at which it is sold to 
the public ; or by one present payment of Five Pounds, as a 
fixed Book Subscription, to receive a copy of all the volumes of 
Transactions published after the date of such payment. 
Subscriptions shall be received by the Treasurer or Secretaries. 
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. 
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 authors of Reports in the Transactions of the Association. 
2. Members who have communicated any Paper to a Philo- 
sophical Society, which has been printed in its Transactions, 
and which relates to such subjects as are taken into considera- 
tion 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 ex- 
ceeding 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 de- 
sired, and who are specially nominated in writing for the meet- 
ing of the year by the President 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, consisting severally of the Members most conver- 
sant with the several branches of Science, to advise together for 
the advancement thereof. 
