RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. XXX1li 
A Report presented to the Association, and read to the Section which 
originally called for it, may be read in another Section, at the request of 
the Officers of that Section, with the consent of the Author. 
Duties of the Doorkeepers. 
1.—To remain constantly at the Doors of the Rooms to which they are 
appointed during the whole time for which they are engaged. 
-2.—To require of every person desirous of entering the Rooms the ex- 
: hibition of a Member’s, Associate’s, or Lady’s Ticket, or Reporter’s 
Ticket, signed by the Treasurer, or a Special Ticket signed by the 
Secretary. 
3.—Persons unprovided with any of these Tickets can only be admitted 
to any particular Room by order of the Secretary in that Room. 
_ No person is exempt from these Rules, except those Officers of the 
Association whose names are printed in the programme, p. 1. 
Duties of the Messengers. 
To remain constantly at the Rooms to which they are appointed dur- 
‘ing the whole time for which they are engaged, except when employed on 
messages by one of the Officers directing these Rooms. 
Committee of Recommendutions. 
The General Committee shall appoint at each Meeting a Committee, 
which shall receive and consider the Recommendations of the Sectional 
“Committees, and report to the General Committee the measures which 
they would advise to be adopted for the advancement of Science. 
All Recommendations of Grants of Money, Requests for Special Re- 
searches, and Reports on Scientific Subjects shall be submitted to the 
‘Committee of Recommendations, and not taken into consideration by the 
General Committee unless previously recommended by the Committee of 
Recommendations. 
Corresponding Societies. 
(1.) Any Society is eligible to be placed on the List of Corresponding 
Societies of the Association which undertakes local scientific investiga- 
tions, and publishes notices of the results. 
(2.) Applications may be made by any Society to be placed on the 
List of Corresponding Societies. Application must be addressed to the 
Secretary on or before the lst of June preceding the Annual Meeting at 
which it is intended they should be considered, and must be accompanied 
_by specimens of the publications of the results of the local scientific 
investigations recently undertaken by the Society. 
(3.) A Corresponding Societies Committee shall be annually nomi- 
nated by the Council and appointed by the General Committee for the 
urpose of considering these applications, as well as for that of keeping 
jhemselves generally informed of the annual work of the Corresponding 
Societies, and of superintending the preparation of a list of the papers 
published by them. This Committee shall make an annuai report to the 
General Committee, and shall suggest such additions or changes in the 
_ List of Corresponding Societies as they may think desirable. 
(4.) Every Corresponding Society shall return each year, on or 
before the Ist of June, to the Secretary of the Association, a schedule, 
1 Passed by the General Committee, 1884. 
1885. b 
