XVill OBJECTS AND RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. 
Obiects and Rules of the Association. 
[Carried at the Christchurch Session in January, 1891; submitted and 
confirmed at the Hobart Session, January, 1892; amended at the 
Sydney Session, January, 1898.] The 1898 amendments are in italics. 
OBJECTS OF 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 OF THE ASSOCIATION. 
MEMBERS AND ASSOCIATES. 
1. Members shall be elected by the Council. The annual subscription 
shall be £1; but after 30th June, 1895, members will be required to pay an 
entrance fee of £1 in addition. 
[Amended as follows :—Members shall be elected by the Council. } 
2. The annual subscription shall be £1, due on the Ist July in each year. 
[Amended as follows -—The subscription shall be £1 for cach Session, to be 
paid in advance. | 
3. A member may at any time become a Life Member by one payment of 
£10, in lieu of future annual subscriptions. 
[Amended as follows :—A member may at any time become a Life Member 
by one payment of £10, in lieu of future subscriptions. | 
4, Members who fail to pay their subscriptions 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. 
[Rules 4, 5, and 6 are rescinded. ] 
7. Ladies’ tickets (admitting the holders to the General and Sectional 
Meetings, as well as 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. 
[Amended as follows :—Ladics tickets (admitting the holders to the General 
and Sectional Mectings as well as the Evening Entertainments) may be obtained 
by full members on payment of 10s. for each ticket. Ladies may also become 
members on the same terms as gentlemen. | 
