GENERAL MEETINGS. xlvii 



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. 6th, at 8 p.m., in the College, the Duke of Argyll 

 resigned the office of President to C. G. B. Daubeny, M.D., F.R.S., Professor 

 of Botany in the University of Oxford, who took the Chair at the General 

 Meeting, and delivered an Address, for which see p. xlviii. 



On Thursday Evening, Aug. 7th, a Conversazione and Musical Promenade 

 took place at the Pittville Spa. 



On Friday, Aug. 8th, at 8\ p.m., in the College, Col. Sir H. Rawlinson, 

 F.R.S., delivered a Discourse on Recent Discov6ries in Assyria and Baby- 

 lonia, with the results of Cuneiform Research up to the present time. 



On Saturday Evening, Aug. 9th, a Conversazione was held in the College. 



On Monday, Aug. 11th, at 85 p.m., in the College, W. R. Grove, Esq., 

 M.A., F.R.S., delivered a Discourse on the Correlation of Physical Forces. 



On Tuesday, Aug. 12th, at 5\ p.m., the Members dined together in the 

 Music Hall of the Royal Old Well, the President, Prof. Daubeny, in the 

 Chair. 



On Wednesday, Aug. 13th, at 3 p.m., the concluding General Meeting 

 took place in the 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 Dublin*. 



* The Meeting is appointed to take place on Wednesday, the 26th of August, 1857. 



