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one of them appointed to act as Chairman, who shall have notified per. 
sonally 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 made) 
and securing the presentation of the Report in due time; and further, it is 
— expedient that one of the members should be appointed to act as Secretary, for 
ensuring 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 with its efficient working. 
That a tabular list of the Committees appointed on the recommendation 
of each Section should be sent each year to the Recorders of the several Sec- 
tions, 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 Commvitice be nominated and selected by the Sectional Com- 
mittee at a subsequent meeting.' 
Committees have power to add to their number persons whose assist- 
ance they may require. 
The recommendations adopted by the Committees of Sections are ta 
be registered in the Forms furnished to their Secretaries, and one Copy of 
each 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 Sections 
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 Grants 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 authorised, 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 
of the British Association without special permission from the General 
1 Revised by the General Committee, Bath, 1888. 
? Passed by the General Committee at Sheffield, 1879. 
