XXXIV REPORT—1840. 
Extracts from Resolutions of the General Committee. 
Committees and individuals, to whom grants of money for 
scientific purposes have been entrusted, are required to present 
to each following meeting of the Association a Report of the 
progress which has been made; with a statement of the sums 
which have been expended, and the balance which remains dis- 
posable on each grant. 
Grants of pecuniary aid for scientific purposes from the 
funds of the Association 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. 
In each Committee, the Member first named is the person 
entitled to call on the Treasurer, John Taylor, Esq., 2, Duke 
Street, Adelphi, 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 continuation of Researches at the cost of the Association, 
the sum named shall be deemed to include the specified balance 
igh may remain unpaid on the former grant for the same 
object. 
On Thursday evening, September 17th, the President, the 
Most Noble the Marquis of Breadalbane, took the Chair in 
the Theatre. Mr. Murchison read the Address of the General 
Secretaries (see next page). 
On Wednesday, at 3 p.M., the Conctupine GENERAL 
Meet1nNG of the Association took place in the Theatre, when 
an account of the ProcEEDINGS OF THE GENERAL ComMIT- 
TEE was read by Major Sabine. 
