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ciation expire at tlie 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 impaid on the former grant for the same object. 



On Thursday evening, September 26th, at 8 p.m., in the Festival Concert 

 Room, York, the late President, the Earl of Rosse, resigned his office to the 

 Very Rev. the Dean of Ely, who took the Chair at the General Meeting, and 

 delivered an Address, for which see p. xxxi. 



On Friday evening, September 27th, in the same room, Charles Lyell, Esq., 

 F.R.S., delivered a Discourse on the Geology of North America, particularly 

 noticing the latest surveys of the Western Coal-fields of the United States, and 

 new facts which had been discovered, bearing on the recession of the Falls of 

 Niagara. The discourse was illustrated by Diagrams and other drawings. 



On Saturday evening, September 28th, in the same room, Dr. Falconer, 

 F.G.S., delivered a Discourse on the Gigantic Tortoise of the Siwalik Hills 

 in India, illustrated by a restoration drawing of the full size (20 feet) and 

 specimens of particular bones of the fossil. 



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 tlie General Committee, and the grants of money for scientific 

 purposes, were explained to the Members. 



