XXX RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. 



(ii) The Sectional Presidents of former years are ex-officio members of 

 these Committees. 



(iii) The Sectional Committees may hold such meetings as they think 

 proper for the organisation of the business, but shall, under any circum- 

 stances, meet on the fii'st Wednesday of the Annual Meeting at 2 p.m. 

 for the appointment of additional Members and other business. 



Any member who has served on the Committee in previous years, and 

 who has intimated his intention of being present at the Meeting, is eligible 

 for election as a Member of the Committee at its first meeting. 



(iv) The Sectional Committees shall have power to add to their number 

 from day to day during the Annual Meeting, but it is not desirable for 

 them to be larger than is necessary for efficiency ; they have also the 

 power to elect not more than three Vice-Presidents at any time during 

 the meeting, in addition to those appointed by the Council. 



(v) The List formed during the Annual Meeting 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 Proceedings. 



(vi) Before the close of the Annual Meeting each Sectional Committee 

 is to nominate six members of the Association to form the nucleus of the 

 Committee for the succeeding year, and forward a list of the six names to 

 the Assistant Secretary of the Association. 



Included in the six names should be the existing President of the 

 Section, or one of the Vice-Presidents, and one of the existing Secretaries. 



It will be the duty of these Members to transact the business of 

 the Committee until the officers of the Section for the ensuing year are 

 appointed by the Council, and thus become the officers of the Committee 

 (see (i) ). 



Business of the Sectional Committees. 



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

 following Thursday, Friday, Saturday (optional), Monday, and Tuesday, 

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

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

 and the Sectional Committee. 



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

 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 



they are to be read, are now as far as possible determined by the Sectional Com- 

 mittees hefore the beginning 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 tlie 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, with printed copies of their HeiJorts and 

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

 unless it is handed either to the llecorder of the Section or to the Assistant Secre- 

 tary before the conclusion of the Meeting. 



