xxxiv RULES OV THE ASSOCIATION. 



2. To require of every person desirous of entering the rooms the ex- 



hibition of a Member's, Associate's, or Lady's Ticket, or Reporter's 

 Ticket, signed by the Treasurer, or a Special Ticket signed by the 

 Assistant Secretary. 



3. Persons unprovided with any of these tickets can only be admitted 



to any particular room by order of the Secretary in that room. 



No person is exempt from these Rules, except those Ofl&cers of the 

 Association whose names are printed in the Official Programme, p. 1. 



Duties of the Messengers. 



To remain constantly at the rooms to which they are appointed dur- 

 ing the whole time for which they are engaged, except when employed on 

 messages by one of the Officers directing these Rooms. 



Committee of Recommendations. 



The General Committee shall appoint at each Meeting a Committee, 

 which shall receive and consider the Recommendations of the Sectional 

 Committees, and report to the General Committee the measures which 

 they would advise to be adopted for the advancement of Science. 



The ex officio members of the Committee of Recommendations are the 

 President and Vice-Presidents of the Meeting, the General Secretaries, 

 the General Treasurer, the Trustees, and the Presidents of the Association 

 in former years. 



All Recommendations of Grants of Money, Requests for Special Re- 

 searches, and Reports on Scientific Subjects shall be submitted to the 

 Committee of Recommendations, and shall not be taken into considera- 

 tion by the General Committee unless previously recommended by the 

 Committee of Recommendations. 



All proposals for establishing new Sections, or altering the titles of 

 Sections, or for any other change in the constitutional forms and funda- 

 mental rules of the Association, shall be referred to the Committee of 

 Recommendations for a report.' 



If the President of a Section is unable to attend a meeting of the 

 Committee of Recommendations, the Sectional Committee shall be 

 authorised to appoint a Vice-President, or, failing a Vice-President, 

 some other member of the Committee, to attend in his place, due notice 

 of the appointment being sent to the Assistant Secretary.'^ 



Gorresponding Societies.^ 



1 . (i) Any Society which undertakes local scientific investigation and 

 publishes the results may become a Society affiliated to the British Asso- 

 ciation. 



(ii) The Delegates of such Societies, who must be or become members 

 of the British Association, shall be ex officio members of the General 

 Committee. 



' Passed by the General Committee at Birmingham, 1865. 



* Passed by the General Committee at Leeds, 1890. 



» Passed by the General Committee, 1884 ; revised 1903, 1905. 



