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II. Sub-Committee of Chemistry, Electricity, Galvanism, Magnetism, 

 Mineralogy, mid Chemical Arts ar,d Mamfactures. 



Meetings for Committee Business, Room B, from Ten to Eleven, 

 Meetings for reading papers, &c. Room B, from Twelve to One. 



III. Sub-Committee of Geology and Geography. 



Meetings for Committee business, Room C, from Ten to Eleven. 

 Meetings for reading papers, &c. Room C, from Eleven to Twelve. 



IV. Sub-Committee of "Natural History, {Botany, Zoology, Physi- 

 ology, Anatomy, Medicine, SfC.) ' l 



Meetings for Committee business. Room D, from Ten to Eleven. 



Meetings for reading papers, &c. Room C, from Eleven to Twelve. 



N.B. All members of the Association may attend the meetings at 

 which papers are read. 



The Committee of each Section will choose its own Chairman and 

 Secretary on assembling, and substitutes for them when necessary. 

 If it be found convenient, any Section may unite with another, or 

 may subdivide itself into Subsections. The Chairman of the Com- 

 mittee is to preside at the Sectional Meetings, and to take charge of 

 the business of the Committee in the intervals of the meetings, as 

 well as during the meeting. The Chairman of each Section will be 

 furnished by the Committee of Papers with a list of the communica- 

 tions to be laid before the Section, so far as they have been an- 

 nounced to the officers of the Association. 



The communications which persons are invited to make to the sec- 

 tions, are " written or verbal announcements of recent discoveries, 

 researches, results of researches, experimental decisions of disputed 

 points, suggestions of important points to be examined, information 

 of the progress of science in foreign countries, and oral remarks on 

 such communications." The Secretary of each section or sub-section 

 on being directed by the Chairman, is to make a memorandum of the 

 subject of each communication made to the Section. These memo- 

 randa of the Secretaries of the Sections shall be communicated to 

 the Secretaries of the Association, for the purpose of being published 

 with the Report of the Meeting, The committees of each section are 

 requested to suggest any subjects on which reports on the recent pro- 

 gress and present state of particular sciences from persoas of known 

 scientific eminence are desirable, or any specific inquiries, or obser- 

 vations in different places by societies or individuals, to suggest also 

 the names of persons to be applied to for these purposes, and to com- 

 municate their suggestions to the General Committee on Saturday. 



The Committees will communicate together respecting points on 

 which they can be auxiliary to each other. 



Provisional Sub-committees. 



I. Mathematics and General Physics. — Professor Airy, Professor 

 Babbage, Sir D. Brewster, Sir T. Brisbane, Mr. Brunei, Rev. H. 

 Coddington, Mr. Creswcll, Mr. J. D. Torbcs, Mr. Davies Gilbert, 

 Professor Hamilton, Mr. Harvey, Professor Jarrctt, Mr. Murphy, 



