XXV) 



r.ULES Of THE ASSOCIATION. 



m jeting. Tlio Sectional Presidents of former years are ex ojficiu members 

 ol'tho Organizing Sectional Committees.' 



An Organizing Committee may also hold such preliminary meetings as 

 the President of the Committee thinks expedient, but shall, under any 

 circumstances, meet on the first Wednesday of the Annual Meeting, at 

 11 A.M., to nominate the first members of the Sectional Committee, if 

 they shall consider it expedient to do so, and to settle the terms of their 

 report to the General Committee, after which their functions as aix 

 Organizing Committee shall cease. ^ 



Constitution (if the Sectioned Coiaitiittees:^ 



On the first day of the Annual Meeting, the Pre;:ident, Vice-Pi'esi- 

 dents, and Secretaries of each Section having been appointed by the 

 General Committee, these Officers, and those proviouH Presidents and 

 Vice-Presidents of the Section who maj'^ desire to attend, are to meet, at 

 2 P.M., in their Committee Rooms, and enlarge the Sectional Committees 

 by selecting individuals from among the IMembci's (not Associates) present 

 at the Meeting whose assistance tliey may particularly desire. Tlie Sec- 

 tional Committees thus constituted shall have power to add to their 

 number from day to day. 



The List thus formed is to be entered daily in the Sectional ]Minute- 

 Book, and a copy forwarded without delay to the Printer, who is chai'ged 

 with publishing the same before 8 a.m. on the next day in the Journal of 

 the Sectional Proceedings. 



Business of the Sectioned Comviittees. 



Committee Meetings are to be held on the Wednesday at 2 p.m., on tlie 

 following Thursday, Friday, Saturday,* Monday, and Tuesday, from 10 to 

 11 a.m., punctually, for the objects stated in the Rules of the Association, 

 and specified below. 



The business is to be conducted in the following manner : — 



1. The President shall call on the Secretary to read the minutes of 



the previous Meeting of the Committee. 



2. No paper shall be read until it has been formally accepted by the 



Ctimmitiee of the Section, and entered on the minutes accord- 

 ingly. 



3. Papers which have been reported on unfavourably by the Organiz- 



ing Committees shall not be brought before the Sectional 

 Committees.''"' 

 At the first meeting, one of the Secretaries will read the Minutes of 

 last year's proceedings, as recorded in the Minute-Book, and the Synopsis 



before , uddressod tlms — '(lontTiil .Secretaries, liriti.sli Associa- 

 tion, 22 Albemarle Street, Ijondon, \V. For Section ' If it should he incon- 

 venient to the Author tliat his 2iai)er should be read on any particular da\s, lie is 

 reque.sted to send ini'orinatioii thereof tothe Secretaries in a s(^]iarate note. Autliors 

 who send in their MSS. three comjilete weeks before the IMeetin.L;-, .and whose papers 

 are accepted, will bo furnished, httfore the Meetinir. with printed copies of tiieir 

 Reports and Abstracts. No lleport, I'aper. or Abstract can be iii.scrted in the .Annual 

 Volume unless it is hiinded either to the Recorder of tlic Section or to the Secretary. 

 bi'forc the foiirliisio/i off/ir Mrrfini/. 



' Added by the CJeneral Comuiiltce, Shellidd, IS"'.). 



- Uevised by tlie (ieneral Conunittee, Swansea, IHSO. 



' Passed by the General ('mninittee. Kdini)ur,i:li, IS"!. 



* The meeting on Saturday was made optional bv the ("ieneral C'oiumi'tee at 

 Southport, 188:!. 



' These rules were adopted by the tient'ral Committee, riymouth. 1877. 



