XXV1il REPORT—1905. 
(ii) The Sectional Presidents of former years are ex-officio members of 
these Committees. ' 
(iii) The Sectional Committees may hold such meetings as they think 
proper for the organisation of the business, but shall, under any circum- 
stances, meet on the first Wednesday of the Annual Meeting at 2 P.M. 
for the appointment of additional Members and other business. 
Any member who has served on the Committee in previous years, and 
who has intimated his intention of being present at the Meeting, is eligible 
for election as a Member of the Committee at its first meeting. 
(iv) The Sectional Committees shall have power to add to their number 
from day to day during the Annual Meeting, but it is not desirable for 
them to be larger than is necessary for efficiency ; they have also the 
power to elect not more than three Vice-Presidents at any time during 
the meeting, in addition to those appointed by the Council. 
(v) The List formed during the Annual Meeting is to be entered 
daily in the Sectional Minute- Book, and a copy forwarded without delay 
to the Printer, who is charged with publishing the same before 8 a.M. on 
the next day in the Journal of the Sectional Proceedings. 
(vi) Before the close of the Annual Meeting each Sectional Committee 
is to nominate six members of the Association to form the nucleus of the 
Committee for the succeeding year, and forward a list of the six names to 
the Assistant Secretary of the Association. 
Included in the six names should be the existing President of the 
Section, or one of the Vice-Presidents, and one of the existing Secretaries. 
It will be the duty of these Members to transact the business of 
the Committee until the officers of the Section for the ensuing year are 
appointed by the Council, and thus become the officers of the Committee 
(see (1) ). 
Business of the Sectional Committees. 
Committee Meetings are to be held on the Wednesday, and on the 
following Thursday, Friday, Saturday (optional), Monday, and Tuesday, 
for the objects stated in the Rules of the Association. The Committee of 
a Section is empowered to arrange the hours of meeting of the Section 
and the Sectional Committee. 
The business is to be conducted in the following manner :— 
At the first meeting, one of the Secretaries will read the Minutes of 
last year’s proceedings, as recorded in the Minute-Book, and the Synopsis 
of Recommendations adopted at the last Meeting of the Association 
they are to be read, are now as far as possible determined by the Sectional Com- 
mittees before the beginning of the Meeting. It has therefore become necessary, 
in order to give an opportunity to the Committees of doing justice to the several 
Communications, that each author should prepare an Abstract of his Memoir of a 
length suitable for insertion in the published Transactions of the Association, 
and that he should send it, together with the original Memoir, by book- post, on or 
DOLOLPE os ctearcaten ecb oe tene +, addressed to the General Secretaries, at the office of 
the Association. ‘For Section......... > If it should be inconvenient to the Author 
that his paper should be read on any particular days, he is requested to send in- 
formation thereof to the Secretaries in a separate note. Authors who send in their 
MSS. three complete weeks before the Meeting, and whose papers are accepted, 
will be furnished, before the Meeting, with printed copies of their Reports and 
abstracts. No Report, Paper, or Abstract can be inserted in the Annual Volume 
unless it is handed either to the Recorder of the Section or to the Assistant Secre- 
tary before the conclusion of the Meeting. 
