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thereon, and on the order in wliicli it is desirable that they should be 

 read. The Sectional Presidents of former years are ex oficio members 

 of the Organising Sectional Committees.' 



An Organising Committee may also hold such preliminary meetino-s as 

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

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

 2 P.M., to appoint members of the Sectional Committee. ^ 



Constitution of the Sectional Committees. '^ 



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

 dents, and Secretaries of each Section, who will be appointed by the 

 General Committee at 4 p.m., and those previous Presidents and Vice- 

 Presidents of the Section who may desire to attend, are to meet, at 2 p.m., 

 in their Committee Rooms, and appoint the Sectional Committees by 

 selecting individuals from among the Members (not Associates) present 

 at the Meeting whose assistance they may particularly desire. Any 

 Member who has intimated the intention of attending the Meeting, and 

 who has already served upon a Committee of a Section, is eligible for 

 election as a Member of the Committee of that Section at its first 

 meeting.* The Sectional 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 Proceedino^s. 



Business of the Sectional Committees. 



Committee Meetings are to be held on the Wednesday, and on the 

 following Thursday, Friday, Saturday,'^ Monday, and Tuesday, for the 

 objects stated in the Rules of the Association. The Organising Committee 

 of a Section is empowered to arrange the hours of meeting of the Section 

 and the Sectional Committee except for Saturday. '' 



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



o 



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

 the previous Meeting of the Committee. 



they are to be read, are now as far as possible determined by Organising Committees 

 for the several Sections before the heginning of the Meeting. It has therefore become 

 necessary, in order to give an opportunity to the Committees of doing justice to 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 to the General Secretaries, at the office of 



the Association. 'For Section ' If it should be inconvenient to the Author 



that his paper should be read on any particular days, he is requested to send in- 

 formation 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, witli printed copies of their lieports and 

 abstracts. No Report, Paper, or Abstract can be inserted in tlie Annual Volume 

 unless it is handed either to the Recorder of the Section or to the Assistant General 

 Secretary before the conclmioji of the Meethiq. 



• Sheffield, 1879. "= Swansea, 1880, revised, Dover, 1899. 



3 Edinburgh, 1871, revised, Dover, 1899. ■• Glasgow, 1901. 



'■' The meeting on Saturday is optional, Southport, 1383. " Nottingham, 1893. 



