xl REPORT — 1853. 



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 re- 

 mains disposable on each grant. 



Grants of pecuniary aid for scientific purposes from the funds of the Asso- 

 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., 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 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, Sept. 7th, at 8 p.m., in the Saloon of the Mechanics' In- 

 stitution, Colonel Edward Sabine, R.A., V.P. and Treas. R.S., resigned the 

 office of President to William Hopkins, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., who took 

 the Chair at the General Meeting, and delivered an Address, for which see 

 page xli. 



On Thursday, Sept. 8th, a Soiree took place in the Music Hall, at the 

 Public Rooms. 



On Friday, Sept. 9th, at 8 p.m., in the Saloon of the Mechanics' Institu- 

 tion, John Phillips, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., delivered a Discourse on some 

 peculiar Phgenomena in the Geology and Physical Geography of Yorkshire. 



On Saturday, Sept. 10th, at 9 p.m., a Soiree took place, by invitation of 

 the Mayor of Hull, in the Station Hotel. 



On Monday, Sept. 12, at 8 p.m., in the Saloon of the Mechanics' Institu- 

 tion, Robert Hunt, Esq., delivered a Discourse on the present state of Pho- 

 tography. 



On Wednesday, Sept. 14-, at 3 p.m., the concluding General Meeting of 

 the Association wn^ held in the Saloon of the Mechanics' Institution, 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 Liverpool *. 



* The Meeting is appointed to take place on Wednesday, the 20th of September, 1854. 



