RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. XXV1i 
Meetings. 
The Association shall meet annually, for one week, or longer. Tle 
place of each Meeting shall be appointed by the General Committee not 
less than two years in advance ;! and the arrangements for it shall be 
entrusted to the Officers of the Association. 
General Committee. 
The Genera! Committee shall sit during the week of the Meeting, or 
longer, to transact the business of the Association. It shall consist of the 
following persons :— 
Crass A. PerMANENT MEMBERS. 
1, Members of the Council, Presidents of the Association, and Presi- 
dents of Sections for the present and preceding years, with Authors cf 
Reports in the Transactions of the Association. 
2. Members who by the publication of Works or Papers have fur- 
thered the advancement of those subjects which are taken into considera- 
tion at the Sectional Meetings of the Association. With a view of sub- 
mitting new claims under this Rule to the decision of the Council, they must be 
sent to the Assistant Secretary at least one month before the Meeting of the 
Association. The decision of the Council on the claims of any Member of the 
Association to be placed on the list of the General Committee to be final. 
Crass B. Temporary MemBers.? 
1. Delegates nominated by the Corresponding Societies under the 
conditions hereinafter explained. Claims wnder this Rule to be sent to the 
Assistant Secretary before the opening of the Meeting. 
2. Office-bearers for the time being, or delegates, altogether not ex- 
ceeding three, from Scientific Institutions established in the place of 
Meeting. Claims under this Rule to be approved by the Local Secretaries 
before the opening of the Meeting. 
8. Foreigners and other individuals whose assistance is desired, ard 
who are specially nominated in writing, for the Meeting of the year, by 
the President and General Secretaries. 
4, Vice-Presidents and Secretaries of Sections. 
Constitution of the Sectional Committees.’ 
_ (i) The President, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries of a Section are 
appointed by the Council in November or December. They form, with 
the existing members (see (ii) and (vi) ), the Committee, which has the duty of 
obtaining information upon the Memoirs and Reports likely to be sub- 
mitted to the Section at the next meeting, of preparing a report thereon, 
of generally organising the business of the Section, and of bringing before 
the Council any points which they think deserving of consideration.‘ 
1 Revised by the General Committee, Liverpool, 1896. 
2 Revised, Montreal, 1884. 
3 Adopted by the General Committee at Cambridge, 1904. 
4 Notice to Contributors of Memoirs—Authors are reminded that, under an 
drtangement dating from 1871, the acceptance of Memoirs, and the days on which 
