vies " REPORT—1863. 
Extracts from Resolutions of the General Committee. 
Committees and individuals, to whom grants of money for scientific pur- 
poses have been entrusted, are required to present to each following meeting 
of the Association a Report of the progress which has been made; with a 
statement of the sums which have been expended, and the balance which re- 
mains disposable on each grant. 
Grants of pecuniary aid for scientific purposes from the funds of the Asso- 
ciation expire at the ensuing meeting, unless it shall appear by a Report that 
the Recommendations have been acted on, or a continuation of them be 
ordered by the General Committee. 
In each Committee, the Member first. named is the person entitled to call 
on the Treasurer, William Spottiswoode, Esq., 59 Grosvenor Place, London, 
S.W., for such portion of the sum granted as may from time to time be re- 
quired. 
In grants of money to Committees, the Association does not contemplate 
the payment of personal expenses to the members. 
In all cases where additional grants of money are made for the continua- 
tion of Researches at the cost of the Association, the sum named shall be 
deemed to include, as a part of the amount, the specified balance which may 
remain unpaid on the former grant for the same object. 
General Meetings. 
On Wednesday Evening, August 26, at 8 p.m., in the Town Hall, the Rev. 
R. Willis, M.A., F.R.S., resigned the office of President to Sir W. G. Arm- 
strong, LL.D., F.R.S., who took the Chair, and delivered an Address, for 
which see page li. 
On Thursday Evening, August 27, at 8 p.m., a Soirée took place in the 
Central Exchange News Room. 
On Friday Evening, August 28, at 8.30 p.m., in the Town Hall, Professor 
Williamson delivered a Discourse on the Chemistry of the Galyanic Battery 
considered in relation to Dynamics. 
On Monday Evening, August 31, at 8 p.m., a Soirée took place in the Cen- 
tral Exchange News Room. 
On Tuesday Evening, September 1, at 8.30 p.u., Mr. Glaisher gave an 
account of the Balloon Ascents made for the British Association. 
On Wednesday, September 2, at 3 p.m., the concluding General Meeting 
took place, when the Proceedings of the General Committee, and the Grants o: 
Money for Scientific purposes, were explained to the Members. , 
The Meeting was then adjourned to Bath*. 
* The Meeting is appointed to take place on Wednesday, September 14, 1864. 
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