RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. xxix 



Meetings. 



The Association shall meet annnally, for one week, or longer. The 

 place of each Meeting shall be appointed by the General Committee not 

 less than two years in advance ; ' and the arrangements for it shall bo 

 entrusted to the Officers of the Association. 



General Committee. 



The General Committee shall sit during the week of the Meeting, or 

 longer, to transact the business of the Association. It shall consist of the 

 following persons : — 



Class A. Permanent Members. 



1. Members of the Council, Presidents of the Association, and Presi- 

 dents of Sections for the present and preceding yeai'S, with Authors of 

 Reports in the Transactions of the Association. 



2. Members %vho by the publication of Works or Papers have fur- 

 thered the advancement of those subjects which are taken into considera- 

 tion at the Sectional Meetings of the Association. With o. view of suh- 

 mitting new claims under this Bule to the decision of the Council, they must be 

 sent to the Assistant Secretary at least one month before the Meeting of the 

 Association. The decision of the Council on the claims of any Member of the 

 Association to be placed on the list of the General Committee to be final. 



Class B. Temporaet Members.'^ 



1. Delegates nominated by the Corresponding Societies under the 

 conditions hereinafter explained. Claims under this Rule to be sent to the 

 Assistant Secretary before the opening of the Meeting. 



2. Office-bearers for the time being, or delegates, altogether not ex- 

 ceeding three, from Scientific Institutions established in the place of 

 Meeting. Claims under this Rule to be approved by the Local Secretaries 

 before the opening of the Meeting. 



3. Foreigners and other individuals whose assistance is desired, and 

 who are specially nominated in writing, for the Meeting of the year, by 

 the President and General Secretaries. 



4. Vice-Presidents and Secretaries of Sections. 



Constitution of the Sectional Committees.'^ 



(i) The President, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries of a Section are 

 appointed by the Council in November or December. They form, with 

 the existing members (see (ii) and (vi) ), the Committee, which lias the duty of 

 obtaining information upon the Memoirs and Reports likely to be sub- 

 mitted to the Section at the next meeting, of preparing a report thereon 

 of generally organising the business of the Section, and of bringing before 

 the Council any points which they think deserving of consideration.-* 



' Revised by the General Committee, Liverpool, 1896. 

 ' Hevised, Montreal, 1884. 



' Adopted by the General Committee at Cambridge, 1904. 



* Notice to Contributors of Memoirs.—Authois are reminded that, under an 

 arrangement dating from 1871, the acceptance of Memoirs, and the days on which 



