RULES OF IHE ASSOCIATION. XXXI 



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



Committee of the Section, and entered on the minutes accord- 

 ingly- 



3. Papers which have been reported on unfavourably by the Organ- 



ising Committees shall not be brought before the Sectional 

 Committees.^ 



At the first meeting, one of the Secretaries will read the Minutes of 

 last year's proceedings, as recorded in the Minute-Book, and the Synopsis 

 of Recommendations adopted at the last Meeting of the Association 

 and printed in the last volume of the Report. He will next proceed to 

 read the Report of the Organising Committee.^ The list of Communi- 

 cations to be read on Thursday shall be then arranged, and the general 

 distribution of business throughout the week shall be provisionally ap- 

 pointed.* At the close of the Committee Meeting the Secretaries shall 

 forward to the Printer a List of the Papers appointed to be read. The 

 Printer is charged with publishing the same before 8 a.m. on Thursday 

 in the Journal. 



On the second day of the Annual Meeting, and the following days, 

 the Secretaries are to correct, on a copy of the Journal, the list of papers 

 which have been I'ead on that day, to add to it a list of those appointed 

 to be read on the next day, and to send this copy of the Journal as early 

 in the day as possible to the Printer, who is charged with printing the 

 same before 8 a.m. next morning in the Journal. It is necessary that one 

 of the Secretaries of each Section (generally the Recorder) should call 

 at the Printing Office and revise the proof each evening. 



Minutes of the proceedings of every Committee are to be entered daily 

 in the Minute-Book, which should be confirmed at the next meeting of 

 the Committee. 



Lists of the Reports and Memoirs read in the Sections are to be entered 

 in the Minute-Book daily, which, with all Memoirs and Copies or Abstracts 

 of Memoirs furnished by Authors, are to be forwarded, at the close of the 

 Sectional Meetings, to the Assistant General Secretary. 



The Vice-Presidents and Secretaries of Sections become ex officio 

 temporary Members of the General Committee {vide p. xxxi), and will 

 receive, on application to the Treasurer in the Reception Room, Tickets 

 entitling them to attend its Meetings. 



The Committees will take into consideration any suggestions which may 

 be ofiered by their Members for the advancement of Science. They are 

 specially requested to review the recommendations adopted at preceding 

 Meetings, as published in the volumes of the Association, and the com- 

 munications made to the Sections at this Meeting, for the purposes of 

 selecting definite points of research to which individual or combined 

 exertion may be usefully directed, and branches of knowledge on the 

 state and progress of which Reports are wanted ; to name individuals or 

 Committees for the execution of such Reports or researches ; and to state 

 whether, and to what degree, these objects may be usefully advanced by 

 the appropriation of the funds of the Association, by application to 

 Government, Philosophical Institutions, or Local Authorities. 



In case of appointment of Committees for special objects of Science, 

 it is expedient that all Members of the Committee should be named, and 



> Plymouth, 1877. ' Kdiiiburgli, 1871. 



