RULES OF THE ASSOCIA1ION. XXV 



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 Committee. 



The General Committee shall sit during the week of the Meeting, 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 Association. 



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

 thered the advancement of those subjects 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 Council, they must 

 be sent to the Secretary at least one month 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. Temporary Members. 



1. Delegates nominated by the Corresponding Societies under the 

 conditions hereinafter explained. 1 Claims under this Rule to be sent to the 

 Secretary before the opening of the Meeting. 



2. Office-bearers for the time being, or delegates, altogether not ex- 

 ceeding three, from Scientific Institutions established in the place of 

 Meeting. Claims under this Rule to be approved 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. 2 



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 submitted 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, 3 and of preparing Reports 

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

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



1 Ke vised by the General Committee, 1884. 



2 Passed by the General Committee, Edinburgh, 1871. 



3 Notice to Contributors of Memoirs. — Authors are reminded that, under an 

 arrangement dating from 1871, the acceptance of Memoirs, and the days on which 

 they are to be read, are now as far as possible determined by Organizing Committees 

 for the several Sections before the beginning of the Meeting. It has therefore become 

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

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

 of a length suitable for insertion in the published Transactions of the Association, 

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



