OBJECTS AND RULES 



OF 



THE ASSOCIATION. 



OBJECTS. 



The Association contemplates no interference with tlie ground occupied 

 by other institutions. Its objects are : — To give a stronger impulse and 

 a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the inter- 

 course of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British 

 Empire, with one another and with foreign philosophers, — to obtain a 

 more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any 

 disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress. 



RULES. 

 AdTYiission of Members and Associates. 



All persons who have attended the first Meeting shall be entitled to 

 become Members of the Association, upon subscribing an obligation to 

 conform to its Rules. 



The Fellows and Members of Chartered Literary and Philosophical 

 Societies publishing Transactions, in the British Empire, shall be entitled, 

 in like manner, to become Members of the Association. 



The Officers and Members of the Councils, or Managing Committees, 

 of Philosophical Institutions shall be entitled, in like manner, to become 

 Members of the Association. 



All Members of a Philosophical Institution recommended by its Coun- 

 cil or Managing Committee shall be entitled, in like manner, to become 

 Members of the Association. 



Persons not belonging to such Institutions shall be elected by the 

 General Committee or Council, to become Life Members of the Asso- 

 ciation, Annual Subscribers, or Associates for the year, subject to the 

 approval of a General Meeting. 



Compositions, Subscriptions, and Privileges. 



Life Members shall pay, on admission, the sum of Ten Pounds. They 

 shall receive gratuitously the Reports of the Association which may be 

 published after the date of such payment. They are eligible to all the 

 offices of the Association. 



Annual Subsckibers shall pay, on admission, the sum of Two Pounds, 

 and in each following year the sum of One Pound. They shall receive 

 gratuitously the Reports of the Association for the year of their admission 

 and for the years in which they continue to pay without intermission their 

 Annual Subscription. By omitting to pay this subscription in any par- 

 ticular year, Members of this class (Annual Subscribers) lose for that a/nd 

 all future years the privilege of receiving the volumes of the Association 

 gratis : but they may resume their Membership and other privileges at any 

 subsequent Meeting of the Association, paying on each such occasion the 

 sum of One Pound. They are eligible to all the Offices of the Association. 



