RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. XXxix 
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 thearrangements 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 :— 
Crass 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. 
Crass B. Temporary Mempers.! 
1. Delegates nominated by the Corresponding Societies under the 
conditions hereinafter explained. 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.? 
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,’ 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 Revised by the General Committee, 1884. 
? Passed by the General Committee, Edinburgh, 1871. 
$ 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 Mecting. Tt has therefore become 
hecessary, 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 
