XXXll RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. 



entrnsfced by the Association for the prosecution of particular researches 

 in science, are required to present to each following Meeting of the 

 Association a Report of the progress which has been made ; and the 

 Individual or the Member first named of a Committee to whom a money 

 grant has been made must (previously to the next Meeting of the Associa- 

 tion) forward to the General Secretaries or Treasurer a statement of the 

 sums which have been expended, and the balance which remains dispos- 

 able on each grant. 



Grants of money sanctioned at any one Meeting of the Association 

 expire a week before the opening of the ensuing Sleeting; nor is the 

 Treasurer authorized, after that date, to allow any claims on account of 

 such grants, unless they be renewed in the original or a modified form by 

 the General Committee. 



No Committee shall raise money in the name or under the auspices of 

 the British Association without special permission from the General Com- 

 mittee to do so ; and no money so raised shall be expended except in 

 accordance with the rules of tbe Association. 



In each Committee, the Member first named is the only person entitled 

 to call on the Treasurer, Professor A. W. Williamson, University College, 

 London, W.C., for such portion of the sums granted as may from time to 

 time be required. 



In grants of money to Committees, the Association does not contem- 

 plate the payment of personal expenses to the members. 



In all cases where additional grants of money are made for the con- 

 tinuation of Researches at the cost of the Association, the sum named is 

 deemed to include, as a part of the amount, whatever balance may remain 

 unpaid on the former grant for the same object. 



All Instruments, Papers, Drawings, and other property of the Associa- 

 tion are to be deposited at the Office of the Association, 22 Albemarle 

 Street, Piccadilly, London, W., when not employed in carrying on scien- 

 tific inquiries for the Association. 



Business of the Sections. 



The Meeting Room of each Section is opened for conversation from 

 10 to 11 daily. The Section Booms and approaches thereto can he used for 

 no notices, exhihitions, or other purposes than those of the Association. 



At 11 precisely the Chair will be taken,' and the reading of communi- 

 cations, in the order previously made public, commenced. At 3 p.m. the 

 Sections will close. 



Sections may, by the desire of the Committees, divide themselves into 

 Departments, as often as the number and nature of the communications 

 d-elivered in may render such divisions desirable. 



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 



' The meeting on Saturday may begin, if desired by the Committee, at any time not 

 earlier than 10 or later than 11. Passed by the General Committee at Southport, 1883. 



