RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. XXX1 
Committee of Recommendations. 
The General Committee shall. appoint at each Meeting a Committee, 
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. 
Presidents of the Association in former years are ex officio members of 
the Committee of Recommendations.! 
All Recommendaiions 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. 
All proposals for establishing new Sections, or altering the titles of 
- Sections, or for any other change in the constitutional forms and funda- 
mental rules of the Association, shall be referred to the Committee of 
_ Recommendations fora report.” 
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. 
2. Application may be made by any Society to be placed on the 
List of Corresponding Societies. Applications must be addressed to the 
Secretary on or before the lst of June preceding 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 annuai 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 
Ist 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 various Sections of the Association. 
6. A Corresponding Society shall have the right to nominate any 
1 Passed by the General Committee at Newcastle, 1863. 
2 Passed by the General Committee at Birmingham, 1865, 
3 Passed by the General Committee, 1884. 
