RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. XXXI 



thereon, and on the oi'der in which it is desirable that they should be 

 read, to be presented to the Committees of the Sections at their first 

 meeting. The Sectional Presidents of former years are ex officio members 

 of the Organizing Sectional Committees.' 



An Organizing Committee may also hold such preliminary meetings as 

 the President of the Committee thinks expedient, but shall, under any 

 circumstances, meet on the first Wednesday of the Annual Meeting, at 

 11 A.M., to nominate the first members of the Sectional Committee, if 

 they shall consider it expedient to do so, and to settle the terms of their 

 report to the General Committee, after which their functions as an 

 Organizing Committee shall cease. '^ 



Constitution of the Sectional Committees.^ 



On the first day of the Annual Meeting, the President, Vice-Presi- 

 dents, and Secretaries of each Section having been appointed by the 

 General Committee, these Officers, and those previous Presidents and 

 Vice-Presidents of the Section wlio may desire to attend, are to meet, at 

 2 P.M., in their Committee Rooms, and enlarge the Sectional Committees 

 by selecting individuals from among the Members (not Associates) present 

 at the Meeting whose assistance they may particularly desire. The Sec- 

 tional Committees thus constituted shall have power to add to their 

 number from day to day. 



The List thus formed is to be entered daily in the Sectional Minute- 

 Book, and a copy forwarded without delay to the Printer, who is charged 

 with publishing the same before 8 a.m. on the next day in the Journal of 

 the Sectional Proceedings. 



Business of the Sectional Committees. 



Committee Meetings are to be held on the Wednesday at 2 p.m., on the 

 following Thursday, Friday, Saturday,'* Monday, and Tuesday, from 10 to 

 11 A.M., punctually, for the objects stated in the Rules of the Association, 

 and specified below. 



The business is to be conducted in the following manner : — 



1. The President shall call on the Secretary to read the minutes of 



the previous Meeting of the Committee. 



2. No paper shall be read until it has been formally accepted by the 



several Communications, that each author should prepare an Abstract of his Memoir 

 of a length suitable for insertion in the published Transactions of the Association, 

 and that he should send it, together with the original Memoir, by book-post, on or 

 before , addressed thus — 'General Secretaries, British Associa- 

 tion, 22 Albemarle Street, London, W. For Section ' If it should be incon- 

 venient to the Author that his paper should be read on any particular days, he is 

 requested to send information thereof to the Secretaries in a separate note. Authors 

 •who send in their MSS. three complete weeks before the Meeting, and whose papers 

 are accepted, will be furnished, before the Meeting, with printed copies of their 

 Reports and abstracts. No Report, Paper, or Abstract can be inserted in the Annual 

 Volume unless it is lianded either to the Recorder of the Section or to the Secretary, 

 hefore the conclusion of the Meeting. 



' Added by the General Committee, Sheffield, 1879. 



' Revised by the General Committee, Swansea, 1880. 



' Passed by the General Committee, Edinburgh, 1871. 



* The meeting on Saturday was made optional by the General Committee at 

 Southport, 1 883. 



