KULES OK TlIK ASSOCIATION. 



XXVll 



of Recommendations adopted at the last Meeting of t!io Association and 

 printed in the last volume of the Transactions. He will next proceed to 

 read the Report of the Organizing Committee.' The list of Communi- 

 cations to be read on Thursday sliall be then arranged, and the general 

 distribution of business througliout the week shall be provisionally a|)- 

 pointed. At the close of the Committee Electing the Secretaries shall 

 forward to the Printer a List of the Papers appointed to bo r(,'ad. The 

 Prii.rcr is charged with publishing the same before 8 a.m. on Thursday in 

 the Journal. 



On the second diiy of the Annual ]\[eoting, and the following days, 

 the Secretaries are to correct, on a copy of the Journal, the list of papers 

 which have been read on that day, to add to it a list of those appointed 

 to be read on the next day, and to send this copy of the Journal as early 

 in the day as ])0ssible to the Prii'ter, who is charged with printing the 

 same before 8 a.m. next morning in the Journal. It is necessary that one 

 of the Seeretai'ies of each Section (generally the Reconler) should call 

 at the Printing Office and revise the ])Voof each evening. 



Minutes of <.he proceedings of every Committee are to be entered daily 

 in the ]N[inute-Book, which should be confirmed at the next meeting oi 

 the Committee. 



Lists of the Reports and Memoirs read in the Sections are to be entered 

 in the ]\Iinute-Book daily, which, with all Memoirs awl Copies or Abstracts 

 of Meuinirs fiiriiislied hi/ Aufhnrs^nre to hi.' fonvurded, at the close of the Sec- 

 tional Meetiiii/s, to the Secretary. 



The Vice-Presidents and Secretaries of Sections become ex officio tem- 

 porary^Iombers of the General Committee (r/(/e ]).xxv),and will receive, 

 on application to the Trea.snrer in the Reception Room, Tickets entitling 

 theni to attend its Meetings. 



The Committees will take into consideration any suggestions w'liieh may 

 he offered by their iNfembers for the advancement of Science. They are 

 specially reciuestrd to review the recommendations adopted at precedi?i"' 

 Meetings, as published in the volumes of the Association and the com- 

 munications made to the Sections at this Meeting, for the purposes of 

 selecting definite jtoints of research to which individual or combined 

 exertion may be usefully directed, and branches of knowledge on the state 

 and progress of which Reports are wanted ; to name individuals or Com- 

 mittees for the execution of such Reports or researches; and to slate 

 whether, and to what degree, these objects may be usefully advanced by 

 the appropriation of the tunds' of the Association, by applicati( n to 

 Govei'nment, Philosophical Institutions, or Local Authorities. 



In case of appointment of Connnittees for special objects of Science, 

 it is ex])edient that all Memtiers of the Committee should, he named, and 

 one (f them appointed- to act as Serretari/, for iiisxriiuj attevtio'ii to hnsivess. 



Committees have power to add to their number persons whose assist- 

 ance they mav require. 



The recommendations adopted by the Committees of Sections are to 

 bo registered in the Forms furnished to their Secretaries, and one Copy o 

 each is to be forwarded, without delny, to the Secretary for presentatiou 

 to the Committee of Recommendations. Unless this he done, the llecom- 

 meiidations cannot rrceiue the sanction of the Association. 



N.B. — Recommendations which may originate in any one of the Sec- 

 tions must first he sanctioned Inj the Committee of that Section befoi-e they 



• This and the following seutciico weir added by tlic General Committeo, 1871. 



