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Sectional Committees. 
7. Sectional Committees shall be appointed for the following 
subjects :— 
Section A—Astronomy, Mathematics, Physics, and Mechanics. 
Section B—Chemistry and Mineralogy. 
Section C—Geology and Palzontology. 
Section D—Biology. 
Section E—Geography. 
Section F—Economic and Social Science and Statistics. 
Section G—Anthropology. 
Section H—Medical and Sanitary Science. 
Section I —Literature and the Fine Arts. 
Section J —Architecture and Engineering. 
Privileges of Members. 
8. The rights and privileges of membership shall be in the 
main similar to those afforded by the British Association, subject 
to revision and alteration after the first meeting of the proposed 
Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science. 
Meeting and Excursions. 
In addition to the General and Sectional Meetings for reading 
and discussing Papers, &c., it is proposed that Excursions should 
be organised to various places of interest, such as the various 
Mining Districts, the Jenolan, Wambeyan, and other caves, the 
Blue Mountains, and similar places of interest to geologists and 
others. 
Your representative drew attention to, with a view to 
their criticism, several of these rules as modified and 
especially dwelt upon. 
1st. The words ‘7x the British Empire’ in Rule 2 
as scarcely applicable to an Australasian Association. 
2nd. The words ‘‘ prescribed subscriptions’? in the 
same Rule, as conveying no meaning in the absence of any 
other allusion to the same subject. 
3rd. The omission of annually after the word meet in 
Rule 4, or some other words denotive of the frequency of 
the meeting. 
4th. The word or connecting the expressions General 
Committee and Council respectively in Rule 5, as implying 
by the use of this conjunctive that these bodies were 
identical, in the British Association, and did not each per- 
form very distinct and equally important functions, one 
