XXXVni RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. 



(2.) Applications 7nay be made by any Society to be placed on the 

 List of Corresponding Societies. Application must be addressed to tbe 

 Secretary on or before the 1st of June pi'eceding 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 vai'ious Sections of the Association. 



(6.) A Corresponding Society shall liave 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 

 11 Member of the General Committee. 



Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies. 



(7.) The Delegates of the various Coi'responding Societies shall con- 

 stitute a Conference, of which the Chairman, Vice- Chairmen, and Secre- 

 taries shall be annually nominated by the Council, and appointed by the 

 General Committee, and of which the members of the Corresponding 

 Societies Committee shall be ex officio members. 



(8.) The Conference of Delegates shall be summoned by the Secretaries 

 to hold one or more meetings during each Annual Meeting of the Associa- 

 tion, and shall be empowered to invite any Member or Associate to take 

 part in the meetings. 



(9.) The Secretaries of each Section shall be instructed to transmit to 

 the Secretaries of the Conference of Delegates copies of any recommen- 

 dations forwarded by the Presidents of Sections to the Committee of 

 Recommendations bearing upon matters in which the co-operation of 

 Corresponding Societies is desired ; and the Secretaries of the Conference 

 of Delegates .shall invite the authors of these recommendations to attend 

 the meetings of the Conference and give verbal explanations of their 

 objects and of the precise way in which they would desire to have them 

 carried into efiect. 



(10.) It will be the duty of the Delegates to make themselves familiar 

 with the purport of the several recommendations brought before the Confer- 

 ence, in order that they and others who take part in the meetings may be 



