BULBS OF THE^ASSOCIATION. XXXI 



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

 read the Report of the Committee that has held office since the last Annual 

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

 the Committee of the Section, and entered on the minutes accordingly. 

 The List of Communications to be read on Thursday shall be then 

 arranged, and the general distribution of business throughout the week 

 shall be provisionally appointed. 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 prepare a copy of the Journal for the following day 

 by (i) removing from the list of papers those which have been read on 

 that day ; (ii) making any needful additions to or corrections in the list 

 of those appointed to be read on following days ; (iii) revising the list of 

 the Sectional Committee, and making any other necessary corrections, 

 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 at each Meeting of the Committee are to be 

 entered in the Minute-Book, and these Minutes 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 Secretary of the Association. 



The Vice-Presidents and Secretaries of Sections become ex officio 

 temporary Members of the General Committee, 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 

 Annual Meetings, as published in the volumes of the Association, and the 

 communications 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 staie 

 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 

 one of them appointed to act as Chairman, who shall have notified per- 

 sonally or in writing his willingnesa to accept the office, the Chairman to 

 have the responsibility of receiving and disbursing the grant (if any has 

 been made) and securing the presentation of the report in due time ; and, 

 further, it is expedient that one of the members should be appointed to 

 act as Secretary, for ensuring attention to business. 



It is desirable that the number of Members appointed to serve on 



