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 XLIX. Pwceeditigs of Learned Societies. 



BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE, 



Instituted September 22, 1831. 



¥N our next Number we intend to give a full account of the pro- 

 J- ceedings of this Association, at the meeting lately held at York ; 

 — we shall now lay before our readers a summary of its objects and 

 rules. 



Objects. — The Association contemplates no interference with the 

 ground occupied by other Institutions. Its objects are, — to give an 

 additional impulse and a systematic direction to scientific inquiry,- — 

 to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate science in different 

 parts of the British empire with one another and with foreigners, — 

 to obtain a more general attention to the objects of science, and a 

 removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its pro- 

 gress. 



Ri-i.1 s. — All persons who have attended the first meeting shall be 

 entitled to become Members of the Association, upon subscribing an 

 obligation to conform to its rules. The Fellows and Members of 

 chartered Societies in any part of the British empire shall be entitled 

 in like manner to become Members of the Association. The Office- 

 bearers and Members of the Council or Managing Committee of ail 

 Philosophical Institutions, and other members of such Institutions 

 recommended by the Council, or Managing Committee thereof, shall 

 be entitled in like manner to become Members of the Association. 

 Persons not belonging to such Institutions shall be eligible annually 

 on the recommendation of the General Committee. 



The names of persons desiring to become members shall be en- 

 rolled, and their subscriptions received by the Secretaries and Trea- 

 surer. The amount of the annual subscription shall be 1/., to be 

 paid in advance upon admission, and the amount of the composition 

 in lieu thereof, 5/. 



The Association shall meet annually for one week or longer. The 

 place of each meeting shall be appointed by the General Committee 

 at the previous meeting, and the arrangements for it shall be entrusted 

 to the officers appointed at the preceding meeting in concert with the 

 Local Committees. 



The Gexeral Committee shall sit during the time of the meeting, 

 or longer, to transact the business of the Association. It shall con- 

 •sist of all Members present who have communicated any scientific 

 paper to a Philosophical Society, %vhich paper has been printed in its 

 Transactions, or with its concurrence. The members of Philosophical 

 Institutions, who may be sent as deputies from those Institutions to 

 any Meeting of the Association, shall be members of the Committee 

 for that Meeting. 



The General Committee shall appoint annual Suii-Committees, 

 consisting severally of the members most conversant with the several 

 sciences, to advise logetiicr for tiic advancement thereof. The Sub- 

 Committees shall report what sidijects n{ investigation tiiey would 

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