XXIV RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. 
meeting. The Sectional Presidents of former years are ez officio members 
of the Organizing Sectional Committees.' 
An Organizing Committee may also hold such preliminary meetings as 
the President of the Committee thinks expedient, but shall, under any 
circumstances, meet on the first Wednesday of the Annual Meeting, at 
11 a.s., to nominate the first members of the Sectional Committee, if 
they shall consider it expedient to do so, and to settle the terms of their 
report to the General Committee, after which their functions as an 
Organizing Committee shall cease.” 
Constitution of the Sectional Conmittees.* 
On the first day of the Annual Meeting, the President, Vice-Presi- 
dents, and Secretaries of each Section having been appointed by the 
General Committee, these Officers, and those previous Presidents and 
Vice-Presidents of the Section who may desire to attend, are to meet, at 
2 p.M., in their Committee Rooms, and enlarge the Sectional Committees 
by selecting individuals from among the Members (not Associates) present: 
at the Meeting whose assistance they may particularly desire. The Sec- 
tional Committees thus constituted shall have power to add to their 
number from day to day. 
The List thus formed is to be entered daily in the Sectional Minute- 
Book, and a copy forwarded without delay to the Printer, who is charged 
with publishing the same before 8 a.m. on the next day in the Journal of 
the Sectional Proceedings. 
Business of the Sectional Committees. 
Committee Meetings are to be held on the Wednesday at 2 p.m., on the 
following Thursday, Friday, Saturday,‘ Monday, and Tuesday, from 10 to 
11 a.s., punctually, for the objects stated in the Rules of the Association, 
and specified below. 
The business is to be conducted in the following manner :— 
1. The President shall call on the Secretary to read the minutes of 
the previous Meeting of the Committee. 
2. No paper shall be read until it has been formally accepted by the 
Committee of the Section, and entered on the minutes accord- 
ingly. 
3. Papers which have been reported on unfavourably by the Organiz- 
ing Committees shall not be brought before the Sectional 
Committees.® 
At the first meeting, one of the Secretaries will read the Minutes of 
last year’s proceedings, as recorded in the Minute-Book, and the Synopsis 
PELOLG tea seet eronessice sevem ene nes , addressed thus—‘ General Secretaries, British Associa- 
tion, 22 Albemarle Street, London, W. For Section ........ > Tf it should be incon- 
venient to the Author that his paper should be read on any particular days, he is 
requested to send information thereof to the Secretaries in a separate note, Authors 
who send in their MSS. three complete weeks before the Meeting, and whose papers 
are accepted, will be furnished, before the Meeting, with printed copies of their 
Reports and Abstracts. No Report, Paper, or Abstract can be inserted in the Annual 
Volume unless it is handed either to the Recorder of the Section or to the Secretary, 
before the conclusion of the Meeting. 
1 Added by the General Committee, Sheffield, 1879. 
2 Revised by the General Committee, Swansea, 1880. 
3 Passed by the General Committee, Edinburgh, 1871. 
} 4 The meeting on Saturday was made optional by the General Committee at 
Southport, 1883. 
5 These rules were adopted by the General Committee, Plymouth, 1877. 
