-XXVIU BULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. 



Meetings. 



The Association shall meet annnally, for one week, or longer. The 

 place of each Meeting shall be appointed by the Greneral Committee two 

 years in advance ; and the arrangements for it shall be entrusted to the 

 Officers of the Association. 



General CoiwrniUee. 



The General Committee shall sit during the week of the Meeting, or 

 1 longer, to transact the business of the Association. It shall consist of the 

 •following persons : — 



Class A. Permanent Meiibers. 



1. Members of the Council, Presidents of the Association, and Presi- 

 • dents of Sections for the present and preceding years, with Authors of 

 iReports in the Transactions of the Association. 



2. Members who by the publication of Works or Papers have fur- 

 ' thered the advancement of those subjects which are taken into considera- 

 tion at the Sectional Meetings of the Association. With a view of sub- 

 mitting new claims under this Rule to the decision of the Coicncil, they must 

 he sent to the Secretary at least one month before the Meeting of the 

 Association. The decision of the Council on the claim,s of any Member of 



■ the Association to be placed on the list of the General Gommittee to be final. 



Class B. Temporary Members.' 



1. Delegates nominated by the Corresponding Societies under the 



■ conditions hereinafter explained. Claims under this Rule to be sent to the 

 Secretary before the opening of the Meeting. 



2. Office-bearers for the time being, or delegates, altogether not ex- 

 ceeding three, from Scientific Institutions established in the place of 

 Meeting. Claims under this Rule to be approved by the Local Secretaries 



I before the opening of the Meeting. 



3. Foreigners and other individuals whose assistance is desired, and 

 who are specially nominated in writing, for the Meeting of the year, by 



>the President and General Secretaries. 



4. Vice-Presidents and Secretaries of Sections. 



Organizing Sectional Committees.'^ 



The Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries of the several Sec- 

 tions are nominated by the Council, and have power to act until their 

 ■names are submitted to the General Committee for election. 



From the time of their nomination they constitute Organizing Com- 

 mittees for the purpose of obtaining information upon the Memoirs and 

 Reports hkely to be submitted to the Sections,^ and of preparing Reports 



' Revised by the General Committee, 1884. 



2 Passed by the General Committee, Edinburgh, 1871. 



' Notice to Contributors of Memoirs. — Authors are reminded that, under an 



. arrangement dating from 1871, the acceptance of Memoirs, and the days on which 



they are to be read, are now as far as possible determined by Organizing Committees 



for the several Sections before the beginning of the Meeting. It has therefore become 



1 necessary, in order to give an opportunity to the Committees of doing justice to the 



