RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. XXXI 



■or in writing his willingness to accept the office, the Chairman to have the 

 responsibility of receiving and disbursing the grant {if any has been Tnade) 

 and securing the presentation of the Report in due time ; and, further, it is 

 ■expedient that one of the tnembers should be appointed to act as Secretary, for 

 insuring attention to business. 



That it is desirable that the number of Members appointed to serve on a 

 ■Committee should be as small as is consistent tvith its efficient working. 



That a tabidar list of the Committees appointed on the recommendation 

 of each Section should be sent each year to the Recorders of the several Sections, 

 to enable them to fill in the statement whether the several Committees 

 appointed on the recommendation of their respective Sections had presented 

 their reports. 



That on the proposal to recommend the appointment of a Committee for a 

 special object of science having been adopted by the Sectional Committee, the 

 number of Members of such Committee be then fixed, but that the Members to 

 serve on such Committee be nominated and selected by the Sectional Committee 

 at a subsequent ineeting.^ 



Committees have power to add to their number persons whose assist- 

 ance they may require. 



The recommendations adopted by the Committees of Sections are to 

 be registered in the Forms furnished to their Secretaries, and one Copy of 

 «ach is to be forwarded, without delay, to the Secretary for presentation 

 to the Committee of Recommendations. Unless this be done, the Recom- 

 mendations cannot receive the sanction of the Association. 



N.B. — Recommendations which may originate in any one of the Sec- 

 tions must first be sanctioned by the Committee of that Section before they 

 -can be referred to the Committee of Recommendations or confirmed by 

 the General Committee. 



The Committees of the Sections shall ascertain whether a Report has 

 been made by every Committee appointed at the previous Meeting to whom 

 a sum of money has been granted, and shall report to the Committee of 

 Recommendations in every case where no such Report has been received.* 



Notices regarding G^xmts of Money. 



Committees and individuals, to whom grants of money have been 

 entrusted by the Association for the prosecution of particular researches 

 in science, are required to present to each following Meeting of the 

 Association a Report of the progress which has been made ; and the 

 Chairman of a Committee to whom a money grant has been made must 

 (previously to the next Meeting of the Association) forward to the General 

 Secretaries or Treasurer a statement of the sums which have been ex- 

 pended, and the balance which remains disposable on each grant. 



Grants of money sanctioned at any one Meeting of the Association 



"■expire a week before the opening of the ensuing Meeting; nor is the 



Treasurer authorized, after that date, to allow any claims on account of 



such grants, unless they be renewed in the original or a modified form by 



the General Committee. 



No Committee shall raise money in the name or under the auspices 



• Revised by th6 General Committee, Bath, 1888. 



' Passed by the General Committee at Sheffield, 1879, 



