Xxx REPORT—1850. 
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 (in the Music Hall). 
On Wednesday, July 31st, at 8 p.m., the late President, The Rev. T. R. 
Robinson, D.D., M.R.I.A., resigned his Office to Sir David Brewster, K.H., 
D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., V.P.R.S.E., who took the Chair at the General 
Meeting, and delivered an Address, for which see p. xxxi. 
On Thursday, August Ist, Professor Bennett, M.D., F.R.S.E., delivered a 
Discourse on the Passage of the Blood through the minute Vessels of Ani- 
mals, in connection with Nutrition. 
On Monday, August 5th, Dr. Mantell, F.R.S. &c., delivered a Discourse 
on the Extinct Birds of New Zealand. 
On Wednesday, August 7th, at 3 p.m., the concluding General Meeting of 
the Association was held, 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 Ipswich in 1851*. 
* The Meeting is appointed to take place on Wednesday, the 2nd of July. 
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