xl REPORT—1852. 
Extracts from Resolutions of the General Committee. 
Committees and individuals, to whom grants of money for scientific pur- 
poses 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 disposable on each grant. 
Grants of pecuniary aid for scientific purposes from the funds of the As- 
sociation 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., 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 ak 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, Sept. Ist, at 8 p.m., in May Street Church, Sir Roderick 
I. Murchison, G.C.St.S., F.R.S., on the part of G. B. Airy, Esq., M.A, 
D.C.L., F.R.S., Astronomer Royal, resigned the office of President to 
Colonel Edward Sabine, R.A., Treas. and V.P. R.S., who took the Chair 
at the General Meeting, and delivered an Address, for which see p. xli. 
On Thursday, Sept. 2nd, a Soirée took place from 8 to 10 P.M., in the 
rooms of Messrs. Workman, which had been arranged for the purpose. 
On Friday, Sept. 3rd, at 8 p.m., in May Street Church, G. G. Stokes, 
F.R.S., Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, delivered a Dis- 
course on some recent discoveries in the properties of Light. 
On Saturday, Sept. 4th, at 8 p.m., a Soirée took place in the rooms of 
Messrs. Workman. 
On Monday, Sept. 6th, at 8 p.m., Colonel Portlock, R.E., F.R.S., delivered 
a Discourse on the recent discovery of Rock-salt at Carrickfergus, and the 
geological and practical considerations connected with it. 
On Wednesday, Sept. 8th, at 3 p.m., the concluding General Meeting of 
the Association was held in May Street Church, when the Proceedings of the 
General Committee, and the grants of Money for scientific purposes were ex- 
plained to the Members. 
The Meeting was then adjourned to Hull*. 
* The Meeting is appointed to take place on Wednesday, the 7th of September, 1853. 

