IIULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. 



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Meetings. 



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

 place of each Meeting shall be appointed by the General Committee two 

 years in advance ; and the arrangements for it shall be entrusted to the 

 Officers of the Association. 



General Conimittee. 



The General Committee shall sit during the week of the Moet'mg, or 

 longer, to transact the business of the Association. It shall consist of the 

 following persons -. — 



Class A. Permanent Members. 



1. Members of the Council, Presidents of the Association, and Presi- 

 dents of Sections for the present and preceding years, with Authors of 

 Reports in the Transactions of the A.=30ciation. 



2. Members who by the publication of Works or Papers have fur- 

 thered the advancement of those ftubjects which are taken into considera- 

 tion at the Sectional Meetings of the Association. With a view of sub- 

 mitting new claims under this Rule to the decision of the Couticil, they must 

 he sent to the Secretary at least one mouth before the Meeting of the 

 Association. The decision of the Council on the claims of any Member of 

 the Association to be placed on the list of the General Committee to be final. 



Class B. Temi'Ouary Members. 



1. Delegates nominated by the Corresponding Societies under the 

 conditions hereinafter explained.' Claims under this Rule to he sent to the 

 Secretary before the opening (f the Meeting, 



2. Office-beai'ers for the time being, or delegates, altogether not ex- 

 ceeding three, from Scientific Institutions established in the place of 

 Meeting. Claims tmder tin's Rule to he ajtproved by the Local Secretaries 

 before the opening of the Meeting. 



3. Foreigners and other individuals whose assistance is desired, and 

 who are specially nominated in writing, for the Meeting of the year, by 

 the President and General Secretaries. 



4. Vice-Presidents and Secretaries of Sections. 



Organizing Sectional Committees.'^ 



The Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries of the several Sec- 

 tions are nominated by the Council, and have power to act until their 

 names are subm'^*^ed to the General Committee for election. 



From the time of their nomination they constitute Organizing Com- 

 mittees for the purpose of obtaining information upon the Memoirs and 

 Reports likely to be submitted to the Sections,^ and of preparing Reports 

 thereon, and on the order in which it is desirable that they should be 

 read, to be presented to the Committeea of the Sections at their first 



' Keviscfl by the General Committee, 1881. 



- Passed by the Generul Cominillec, Kdinburgh, 1871. 



^ Noficr to Coiitril/tito/'s of JI/cnnrirK. \nl] wis are reminded lliat, under an 

 arrangement dating from 1871, the acceptance of Alemoir.s, and llie days on which 

 tliey are to be read, are now as far as possible determined by Organizini;- dmimittces 

 lor the several Sections hiforr the hcf/hurhif/ of the ^f<^(•filH/. It has therefore become 

 necessary, in order to give an opportunity to tlie Committees of doing justice to the 

 several Communications, that each Autlior should prepare an Abstract of his Memoir, 

 of alengtli suitable for insertion in tlie published Transactions of the Association, 

 and that he should send it, togctlier with the original Memoir, by book-post, on or 



