RtLES OF tHE ASSOCIATION. Xxxili 



7. The Chairman of a ComDiittee must, before the meeting of the Asso- 



ciation next following after the appointment or reappointment of 

 the Committee, forward to the Treasurer a statement of the sums 

 which have been received and expended, with vouchers. The 

 Chairman must also return the balance of the grant, if any, which 

 has been received and not spent ; or, if further expenditure is con- 

 templated, he must apply for leave to retain the balance. 



8. When application is made for a Committee to be reappointed, and to 



retain the balance of a former grant which is in the hands of the 

 Chairman, and also to receive a further grant, the amount of such 

 further grant is to be estimated as being additional to, and not 

 inclusive of, the balance proposed to be retained. 



9. The Committees of the Sections shall ascertain whether a Report has 



been made by every Committee appointed at the previous Meeting 

 to whom a sum of money has been granted, and shall report to the 

 Committee of Recommendations in every case where no such 

 report has been received. 

 lU. Members and Committees who may be entrusted with sums of money 

 for collecting specimens of any description are requested to re- 

 serve the specimens so obtained to be dealt with by authority of 

 the Council. 



11. Committees are requested to furnish a list of any apparatus which 



may have been purchased out of a grant made by the Association, 

 and to state whether the apparatus will be useful for continuing 

 the research in question, or for other scientific purposes. 



12. All instruments, papers, drawings, and other property of the Asso- 



ciation are to be deposited at the Office of the Association when 

 not employed in scientific inquiries for the Association. 



Business of the Sections. 



The Meeting Room of each Section is opened for conversation shortly 

 before the meeting commences. The Section Rooms and approaches thereto 

 can he used for no notices, exhibitions, or other purposes than those of the 

 Association. 



At the time appointed the Chair will be taken,' and the reading of 

 communications, in the order previously made public, commenced. 



Sections may, by the desire of the Committees, divide themselves into 

 Departments, as often as the number and nature of the communications 

 delivered in may render such divisions desirable. 



A Report presented to the Association, and read to the Section which 

 originally called for it, may be read in another Section, at the request of 

 the Officers of that Section, with the consent of the Author. 



Duties of the Doorkeepers, 



1 . To remain constantly at the Doors of the Rooms to which they are 

 appointed during the whole time for which they are engaged. 



' The Sectional Committee is empowered to arrange the hours of meeting of 

 the Section and of the Sectional Committee, except for Saturday 



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