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30. No report, paper, or abstract shall be inserted in the volume 
of Transactions, Reports, or Proceedings unless it be handed to the 
Secretary before the conclusion of the Session. 
31. The Sectional Committees shall report to the Publication 
Committee what papers it is thought advisable to print. 
32. They shall also take into consideration any suggestions which 
may be offered for the advancement of science. 
33. In recommending the appointment of REesEArcnu CommMirt- 
TEES, all Members of such Committees shall be named, and 
one of them who has notified his willingness to accept the office 
shall be appointed to act as Secretary. The number of Members 
appointed to serve on a Research Committee should be as small 
as 1S consistent with its efficient working. Individuals may be 
recommended to make reports. 
34. All recommendations adopted by Sectional Committees 
sball be forwarded without delay to the RECOMMENDATION Com- 
MITTEE; unless this is done the recommendation cannot be con- 
sidered by the Council. 
OFFICIAL JOURNAL. 
35. At the close of each meeting of the Sections, the Sectional 
Secretaries shall correct, on a copy of the official journal, the lists 
of papers which have been read, and add to them those appointed 
to be read on the next day, and send the same to the General 
Secretaries for printing. 
RECOMMENDATION COMMITTER. 
36. The Council ait its first meeting in each Session shall appoint 
a Committee of Recommendations to receive and consider the re- 
ports of the Research Committees appointed at ‘the last Session, 
and the recommendations from Sectional Committees. The Recom- 
mendation Committee shall also report to the Council, at a subse- 
quent meeting, the measures which they would advise to be adopted 
for the advancement of Science. 
37. All proposals for the appointment of Research Committees 
and for grants of money (see rules 19-21) must be sent in through 
the Recommendation Committee. 
PUBLICATION COMMITTEE. 
388. The Council shall each Session elect a Publcation Com- 
mittee, which shall receive the recommendation of the Sectional 
Committees with regard to publication of papers, and decide finally 
upon the matter to be printed in the volume of Transactions, Re- 
ports, or Proceedings. 
ALTERATION OF RULES. 
89. No alteration of the rules shall be made unless due notice 
of all such additions or alterations shall have been given at one 
Meeting, and carried at another meeting of the Council held dur- 
ing a subsequent Session of the Association. 
40. Should an interim vacancy occur in any office appointed by the General 
Council, the vacancy shall be filled by a majority of votes recorded by corres- 
pondence by an Election Committee composed of the following officers :—-The 
President, the President-Elect, the Vice-Presidents, the General Secretaries, 
the T'reasurer, and the Local Secretaries. 
