RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. XSXlll 



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 Recoiin/mendations. 



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 investio-a- 

 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 1st 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 hj the Council and appointed by the Genei-al Committee for the 

 purpose of considering these applications, as well as for that of keeping 

 themselves 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 annual 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 

 1st of June, to the Secretary of the Association, a schedule, properly filled 

 up, which will be issued by the Se'cretary of the Association, and which will 

 contain a request for such particulars with regard to the Society as may 

 be required for the information of the Corresponding Societies Committee. 



(5.) There shall be inserted in the Annual Report of the Association 

 a list, in an abbreviated form, of the papers published by the Corre- 

 sponding Societies during the past twelve months which contain the 

 results of the local scientific work conducted by them ; those papers only 

 being included which refer to subjects coming under the cognisance of 

 one or other of the various Sections of the Association. 

 ' Passed by the General Committee, 1884. 



1886. b 



