RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. SXXUl 



Committee of Recomm^endations. 



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 considex-ation by the 

 General Committee unless previously recommended by the Committee of 

 Recommendations. 



Coi'respondi7ig 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. 



(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 by the Council and appointed by the General 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 Secretary 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. 



(6.) A Corresponding Society shall have the right to nominate any 

 one of its members, who is also a Member of the Association, as its dele- 

 gate to the Annual Meeting of the Association, who shall be for the time 

 a Member of the General Committee. 



Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies. 



(7.) That the Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies be 

 empowered to send recommendations to the Committee of Recommenda- 

 tions for their consideration, and for report to the General Committee.' 



' Passed by the General Committee, 1884. 

 1888. b 



