RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. XXIX 
and printed in the last volume of the Report. He will next proceed to 
read the Report of the Committee that has held office since the last Annual 
Meeting. No paper shall be read until it has been formally accepted by 
the Committee of the Section, and entered on the minutes accordingly. 
The List of Communications to be read on Thursday shall be then 
arranged, and the general distribution of business throughout the week 
shall be provisionally appointed. At the close of the Committee Meeting 
the Secretaries shall forward to the Printer a List of the Papers appointed 
to be read. The Printer is charged with publishing the same before 
8 a.m. on Thursday in the Journal. 
On the second day of the Annual Meeting, and the following days, 
the Secretaries are to prepare a copy of the Journal for the following day 
by (i) removing from the list of papers those which have been read on 
that day ; (ii) making any needful additions to or corrections in the list 
of those appointed to be read on following days ; (iii) revising the list of 
the Sectional Committee, and making any other necessary corrections, 
and to send this copy of the Journal as early in the day as possible to 
the Printer, who is charged with printing the same before 8 A.M. next 
morning in the Journal. It is necessary that one of the Secretaries of 
each Section (generally the Recorder) should call at the Printing Office 
and revise the proof each evening. 
Minutes of the proceedings at each Meeting of the Committee are to be 
entered in the Minute-Book, and these Minutes should be confirmed at 
the next meeting of the Committee. 
Lists of the Reports and Memoirs read in the Sections are to be entered 
in the Minute-Book daily, which, with all Memoirs and Copies or Abstracts 
of Memoirs furnished by Authors, are to be forwarded, at the close of the 
Sectional Meetings, to the Assistant Secretary of the Association. 
The Vice-Presidents and Secretaries of Sections become ex officio 
temporary Members of the General Committee, and will receive, on 
application to the Treasurer in the Reception Room, tickets entitling 
them to attend its Meetings. 
The Committees will take into consideration any suggestions which may 
be offered by their Members for the advancement of Science. They are 
specially requested to review the recommendations adopted at preceding 
Annual Meetings, as published in the volumes of the Association, and the 
communications made to the Sections at this Meeting, for the purposes of 
selecting definite points of research to which individual or combined 
exertion may be usefully directed, and branches of knowledge on the 
state and progress of which Reports are wanted ; to name individuals or 
Committees for the execution of such Reports or researches ; and to state 
whether, and to what degree, these objects may be usefully advanced by 
the appropriation of the funds of the Association, by application to 
Government, Philosophical Institutions, or Local Authorities. 
Tn case of appointment of Committees for special objects of Science 
it is expedient that all Members of the Committee should be named, and 
one of them appointed to act as Chairman, who shall have notified per- 
sonally or in writing his willingness to accept the office, the Chairman to 
have the responsibility of receiving and disbursing the grant (if any has 
been made) and securing the presentation of the report in due time ; and, 
farther, it is expedient*that one of the members should be appointed to 
act as Secretary, for ensuring attention to business. 
It is desirable that the number of Members appointed to serve on 
