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EXTRACTS FROM RESOLUTIONS OF GENERAL COMMITTEE. XXV 
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. 
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 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. 
On Thursday evening, June 19th, at 8 p.m, in the Senate House, Cam- 
bridge, the late President, the Very Rev. George Peacock, D.D., F.R.S. 
(Dean of Ely), resigned his office to Sir John F. W. Herschel, Bart., F.R.S., 
who took the Chair at the General Meeting, and delivered an Address, for 
which see p. xxvii. 
On Friday evening, June 20th, in the same room, G. B. Airy, Esq., F.R.S., 
Astronomer Royal, delivered a Discourse on the recent Progress of Terres- 
trial Magnetism. 
On Monday evening, June 23rd, in the same room, R. I. Murchison, Esq., 
F.R.S., delivered a Discourse on the Geology of Russia. 
On Wednesday evening, October 2nd, at 8 p.m., in the same room, the 
Concluding General Meeting of the Association was held, when the Pro- 
ceedings of the General Committee, and the grants of money for scientific 
purposes, were explained to the Members. The Meeting was adjourned to 
Southampton, in the month of September, 1846. 
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