RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. XXXVli 



Business of the Sections. 



The Meeting Room of eacli Section is opened for conversation from 

 10 to 11 daily. The Section Booms and approaches thereto can be used for 

 no notices, exhibitions, or other purposes than those of the Association. 



At 11 precisely the Chair will be taken,' and the reading of communi- 

 cations, in the order previously made public, commenced. At 3 p.m. the 

 Sections will close. 



Sections may, by the desire of the Committees, divide themselves into 

 Depai'tments, as often as the number and nature of the communications 

 delivered in may render such divisions desirable. 



A Report presented to the Association, and read to the Section which 

 originally called for it, may be read in another Section, at the request of 

 the Officers of that Section, with the consent of the Author. 



Duties of the Doorkeepers. 



1. — To remain constantly at the Doors of the Rooms to which they are 

 appointed during the whole time for which they are engaged. 



2. — To require of every person desirous of entering the Rooms the ex- 

 hibition of a Member's, Associate's, or Lady's Ticket, or Reporter's 

 Ticket, signed by the Treasurer, or a Special Ticket signed by the 

 Secretaiy. 



3. — Persons unprovided with any of these Tickets can only be admitted 

 to any particular Room by order of the Secretary in that Room. 

 No person is exempt from these Rules, except those Officers of the 



Association whose names are printed in the programme, p. 1. 



Duties of the Messengers. 



To remain constantly at the Rooms to which they are appointed dur- 

 ing the whole time for which they are engaged, except when employed ou 

 messages by one of the Officers directing these Rooms. 



Committee of Recommendations. 



The General Committee shall appoint at each Meeting a Committee, 

 1^ 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 consideration by the 

 General Committee unless previously recommended by the Committee of 

 Recommendations. 



Corresponding 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. 



' The meeting on Saturday may begin, if desired by the Committee, at any time not 

 earlier than 10 or later than 11. Passed by the General Committee at Southport, 1883. 

 ■-' Passed by the General Committee, 1884. 



