STANDING RULES 
OF THE 
MATHEMATICAL SECTION. 
Adopted March 24, 1883. 
1. The object of this Section is the consideration and discussion 
of papers relating to pure or applied mathematics. 
2. The special officers of the Section shall be a Chairman and a 
Secretary, who shall be elected at the first meeting of the Section 
in each year, and discharge the duties usually attaching to those 
offices. 
3. To bring a paper regularly before the Section it must be sub- 
mitted to the Standing Committee on Communications for the 
stated meetings of the Society, with the statement that it is for the 
Mathematical Section. 
4, Meetings shall be called by the Standing Committee on Com- 
munications whenever the extent or importance of the papers sub- 
mitted and approved appear to justify it. 
5. All members of the Philosophical Society who wish to do so 
may take part. in the meetings of this Section. 
6. To every member who shal! have notified the Secretary of 
the General Committee of his desire to receive them, announcements 
of the meetings of the Section shall be sent by mail. 
7. The Section shall have power to adopt such rules of pro- 
cedure as it may find expedient. 
