XSIV PROCEEDINGS. 



NEW RULES. 



Adopted at the Christchurch Meeting in January, 1891; to be submitted for 



confirmation at the Hobart Meeting, January, 1892. 



Objects op the Association. 

 The objects of the Association are to give a stronger impulse and a more 

 systematic direction to scientific inquiry ; to promote the intercourse of 

 those who cultivate science in different parts of the Australasian Colonies 

 and in other countries ; to obtain more general attention to the objects of 

 science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which may 

 impede its progress. 



Rules op the Association. 

 Members and Associates. 



1. Members shall be elected by the Council ; the annual subscription 

 shall be £1, but after the 30th June, 1895, members will be required to pay 

 an entrance-fee of £1 in addition. 



2. The annual subscription shall be £1, due on the 1st July in each 

 year. 



3. A member may at any time become a life-member by one payment 

 of £10, in lieu of future annual subscriptions. 



4. Members who fail to pay their subscription before the annual 

 session of the Association cease to be members, but may rejoin by paying 

 the entrance-fee in addition to the annual subscription. 



5. The Local Committee may admit any person as an associate for 

 the year on the payment of £1. 



6. Associates are eligible to serve on the Local Reception Committee, 

 but are not eligible to hold any other office, and they are not entitled to 

 receive gratuitously the publications of the Association. 



7. Ladies' tickets (admitting the holders to the general and sectional 

 meetings, as well as to the evening entertainments) may be obtained by 

 full members on payment of 5s. for each ticket. Ladies may also become 

 either members or associates on the same terms as gentlemen. 



Sessions. 



8. The Association shall meet in session periodically for one week or < 

 longer. The place of meeting shall be appointed by the Council two years 

 in advance, and the arrangements for it shall be intrusted to the Local 

 Committee. 



Council. 



9. There shall be a Council consisting of the following : (1) Present 

 and former Presidents, Vice-Presidents, Treasurers, and Secretaries of the 

 Association, and present and former Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Secre- 

 taries of the Sections. (2) Authors of reports or of papers published 

 in extenso in the Annual Reports of the Association. 



10. The Council shall meet only during the annual meeting of the 

 Association, and during that period shall be called together at least 

 twice. 



Local Committees. 



11. In the intervals between the sessions of the Association its affairs 

 shall be managed in the various colonies by Local Committees. The 

 Local Committee of each colony shall consist of the members of Council 

 resident in that colony. 



Office7-s. 



12. The President, five Vice-Presidents (elected from amongst former 

 Presidents), a General Treasurer, one or more General Secretaries, and 

 Local Secretaries shall be appointed annually by the Council. 



13. The Governor of the colony in which the session is held shall be 

 ex officio a Vice-President. 



