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‘ 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 of such investigations, especially 
if they are such as are carried on by Committees of the Association. 
‘(2). Application may be made by any Society to be placed on the 
list of Corresponding Societies. Applications must be addressed to the 
Secretary on or before the first of June preceding the annual meeting 
at which it is intended they should be considered, and must be accom- 
panied 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 appointed by the 
Council 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 Committee of Recommendations, and shall suggest 
such additions or changes in the List of Corresponding Societies as they 
may think desirable, subject only to the conditions—(1) That the num- 
ber of Societies on the list shall not exceed that which may be from time 
to time prescribed by the Council; (2) that the intended removal of 
any Society from the list shall not take effect until immediately before 
the commencement of the next annual meeting. 
‘(4). Every Corresponding Society shall transmit each year on or 
before the first of June, to the Secretary of the Association, a copy of its 
publications during the preceding twelve months, and shall at the same 
time return properly filled up a schedule, which will be issued by the 
Secretary of the Association, and which will contain a request for such 
information with regard to the Society as may be desirable. 
‘(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. 
‘(6). A Corresponding Society shali have the right to nominate any 
one of its members, who is also a member of the Association, as its 
Delegate to the annual meeting of the Association, who shall be for the 
time a member of the General Committee. The appointment of a 
Delegate to any annual meeting must be formally notified to the Secre- 
tary of the Association by the Secretary of the Corresponding Society 
not later than the first of July preceding that meeting. 
‘ Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies. 
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‘(7). The Delegates of the various Corresponding Societies shall 
constitute a Conference, of which the Chairman, Vice-Chairmen, and 
Secretaries shall be annually appointed by the Council, and of which the 
members of the Corresponding Societies Committee shall be ew officio 
members. 
