XI 



Money Grants. 



23. Committees and individuals to wliom grants oi" money have been 

 entrusted are required to present to the Ibllowing- meeting a report of 

 the progress wliich has been made, togetlier with a statement ol" the 

 sums which have been expended. Any balanci? shall be returned to the 

 General Treasurer. 



24. In eaeh Committee the Secretary is the only person entitled to call 

 on the Treasurer tor such portions of the sums granted as may from 

 time to time be required. 



25. In grants of money to Committees, or to individuals, the Association 

 does not contemjjlate the payment of personal expenses to the members 

 or to the individual. 



Sections of the Association. 



26. The following Sections shall be constituted : — 



A. — Astronomy, Mathematics, and Physics. 



S. — Chemistry. 



C. — Geology and Mineralogy. 



D. — Biology. 



E. — Geography. 



F. — Ethnology and Anthrojiology. 



G. — Economic Science and Agriculture. 



H. — Engineering and Architecture. 



/. — Sanitary Science and Hygiene. 



J. — Mental Science and Education. 



Sectional Committees. 



27. The Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries of the several 

 Sections shall be nominated by the Local Committee of the Colony in 

 which the next ensuing Session of the Association is to be held, "and 

 shall have power to act until their election is confirmed by the Council. 

 From the time of their nomination, which shall take place as soon as 

 possible after the Session of the Association, they shall be regarded as 

 an Organising Committee, for the purpose of obtaining information 

 upon papers likely to be submitted to the Sections, and for the general 

 furtherance of the work of the Sectional Committees. The Sectional 

 Presidents of former years shall be ex officio Members of the Organising 

 Committees. 



28. The Sectional Committees shall have power to add to their 

 number. 



29. The Committees for the several Sections shall determine the 

 acceptance of ]iapers before the beginning of the Session. It is there- 

 fore desirable, in order to give an opportunity to the Committees of 

 doing justice to the several communications, that each author should 

 prepare an abstract of liis paper, ot a length siutable for insertion in the 

 published Transactions of the Association, and that he should send it, 

 together with the original paper, to the Secretary of the Section before 

 which it is to be read, so that it may reach him at least a fortnight 

 before the Session. 



30. Members may communicate to the Sections the papers of non- 

 members. 



31. The author of any paper is at liberty to reserve his right of 

 property therein, 



