PROCEEDINGS OF THE POLYTECHNIC ASSOCIATION. 



ORGANIZED UNDER THE NAME OF THE MECHANICS 

 CLUB, MARCH 2, 1854, WHICH NAME WAS CHANGED 

 TO THE POLYTECHNIC ASSOCIATION, MARCH 16, 1859. 



RULES ESTABLISHED FOR ITS GOVERNMENT BY THE BOARD OF 

 SCIENCE AND ART. 



First. A Club for the promotion of manufactures, arts, and 

 for the discussion of mechanical subjects, is created under the 

 name of the Polytechnic Association. 



Second. The Polytechnic Association is an agent of the com- 

 mittee of arts and sciences, and is under its entire control, in the 

 same manner as the Farmers' Club is of the committee of agri- 

 culture. The transactions of the Association are in the name of 

 the American Institute. 



Third. The committee of arts and sciences appoint, annually, 

 the chairman and secretary of the Polytechnic Association. In 

 the absence of the chairman and secretary, persons to supply 

 their places will be chosen at the meetings of the Club. 



Fourth. Every member of the American Institute shall 

 become a member of the Polytechnic Association, by signifying 

 his intention to the chairman thereof. 



Fifth. The name of any person eminent in practical mechanics, 

 engineering, mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, natural philoso- 

 phy, social philosophy, geology, mineralogy, practical mining, 

 meteorolog}^, natural history, manufactures or the arts, may be 

 proposed by the members of the Association (by ballot, five- 

 sixths of those present voting aifirmatively) to be an honorary 

 member of the Polytechnic Association of the American Insti- 

 tute ; and when so proposed, if approved by the committee of 

 manufactures, science and arts, of the American Institute, a cer- 

 tificate of membership shall be issued by said committee. 



Sixth. The chairman of the Polytechnic Association is author- 

 ized to arrange sections, or standing committees, embracing all 

 the physical and exact sciences, particularly those named in sec- 

 tion second of those rules, and to appoint a committee for each 

 section, who shall report the doings of the sections to the Asso- 

 ciation. Members, and honorary members, shall be entitled to 

 seats in those sections. 



Seventh. Such papers read at the Polytechnic Association as 

 are accepted for that purpose, will be printed under the direc- 

 tion, and at the expense of the American Institute, which also 

 provides a place of meeting, lights and fires. No other expensea 



