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particularly recommend to be prosecuted during the ensuing year, 

 and brought forward at the ensuing meeting 5 they shall also engage 

 their own members, or others, to undertake such investigations, and 

 where the object admits of being assisted by the exertions of scientific 

 bodies, they shall state the particulars in which it may be desirable 

 for the Commiilee to solicit the cooperation of such bodies. The 

 Sub-Committees shall procure reports on the state and progress of 

 the several sciences, to be drawn up by competent persons for the in- 

 formation of the Meetings. 



The Committee shall appoint at each Meeting a Sub-Committee 

 to examine the papers which have been read at it, and the register of 

 Communications, and to report what ought to be published, and 

 recommend the manner of publication. The author of any paper or 

 communication shall be at liberty to reserve his right of property 

 therein. 



Local Committeks shall be formed, where necessary, by the Com- 

 mittee, or by the Officers of the Association, to assist in promoting its 

 objects. 



The Offickrs of the Association, — namely, a President, two Vice- 

 Presidents, two or more Secretaries and a Treasurer, — shall be an- 

 nually appointed by the Committee. 



The Accounts shall be audited annually by Auditors appointed by 

 the Meeting. 



Officers of the Association. 



President, Viscount Milton, F.R.S. &c. President Elect, 

 Rev. W. Buckland, D.D. F.R.S. &c. Prof, of Geology and Mine- 

 ralogy, Oxford. Vice-President, Rev. W. Vernon Harcourt, 

 F.R.S. &c. Vice-Presidents Elect, David Brewster, LL.D. 

 F.R.S. L.&E. Corr. Member of the Institute of France ; Rev. 

 W. Whewell, F.R.S. &c. Prof of Mineralogy , Cambridge. 

 Secretaries, Wm. Gray, jun. 1 Secretaries of tlie Yorkshire 



John Phillips, F.G.S. &c. J Philosophical Society, York. 

 Ch. Daubeny, M.D. F.R.S. &c. Professor of Chemistry, 



Oxford. 

 Rev. B. Powell, F.R.S. &c. Sav. Professor of Mathe- 

 matics, Oxford. 

 John Robison, F.R.S. &c. Secretary of the Royal So' 



ciety E., Edinburgh. 

 Rev. J. Yates, F.L.S. &c. London. 



Local Committees. 

 London . . . . G. B. Greenough, F.R.S. Vice-Pres. of the Geol. Soc. 

 R. I. Murchison, F.R.S. President of the Geol. Society. 

 Rev. James Yates, F.L.S. &:c. 

 Edinburgh. James D. Forbes, F.R.S. &c. 

 J. F.W.Johnston, F.R.S. E. 

 John Robison, Sec. R.S.E. 

 Dublin , . . . W. R. Hamilton, F.R.S. &c. Royal Astronomer of 

 Ireland. 

 Rev. Dr. Lloyd, F.R.S. Provost of Trinity College. 



India. 



