EXTRACT 
FROM THE LAWS OF THE SOCIETY RELATING TO THE TRANSACTIONS. 
1, The ‘Transactions shall be published in numbers, at short intervals, under the direetion of the Committee 
of Publication. 
2. Every communication to the Society, which may be considered as intended for a place in the T'ransac- 
tions, shall immediately be referred to a committee to consider and report thereon. 
3. If the committee shall report in favour of publishing the communication, they shall make such corrections 
therein, as they may judge necessary to fit it for the Press; or if they shall judge the publication of an abstract or 
extracts from the paper to be most eligible, they shall accompany their report with such abstracts or extracts. 
But if the author do not approve of the corrections, abstracts, or extracts, reported by the committee, he shall be 
at liberty to withdraw his paper. 
4. The order in which papers are read before the Society shall determine their places in the Transactions, 
priority of date giving priority of location. 
COMMITTEE OF PUBLICATION, 
Isaac Lea. 
Isaac Hays, M.D. 
J. Francis Fisner. 
