GENERAL MEETINGS. lvii 
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. 
Members and Committees who are entrusted with sums of money for col- 
lecting specimens of Natural History are requested tq reserve the specimens 
so obtained for distribution by authority of the Association. 
Tn each Committee, the Member first named is the person entitled to call on 
the Treasurer, William Spottiswoode, Esq., 50 Grosvenor Place, London, S.W., 
for such portion of the sum granted as may from time to time be required. 
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 19, at 8 p.m., in the Drill Hall, His 
Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, K.G., F.R.S., President, resigned the oftice of 
President to Dr. Joseph Dalton Hooker, F.R.S., F.L.S., who took the Chair, 
and delivered an Address, for which see page lviii. 
On Thursday Evening, August 20, at 8 p.u., a Soirée took place in St. 
Andrew’s Hall. 
On Wednesday Evening, August 26, in the Drill Hall, Prof. Huxley, 
LL.D., F.R.S., delivered a Discourse on “Chalk,” to the Operative Classes 
of Norwich. 
On Friday Evening, August 21, at 8.30 p.m., in the Drill Hall, J. Fergusson, 
Esq., F.R.S., delivered a Discourse on the “ Archeology of the Early Bud- 
dish Monuments.” 
On Tuesday Evening, August 25, at 8 p.m., in the Drill Hall, Dr. W. 
Odling, F.R.S., delivered a Discourse on “‘ Reverse Chemical Actions ;” after 
which, at 9 p.m., a Soirée took place in St. Andrew’s Hall. 
On Wednesday, August 26, at 3 p.m., the concluding General Meeting 
took place, when the Proceedings of the General Committee, and the Grants of 
Money for Scientific purposes, were explained to the Members. 
The Meeting was then adjourned to Exeter*. 
* The Meeting is appointed to take place on Wednesday, August 18, 1869. 
