RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. XIX 



Volumes not claimed -within two years of the date of publication can only 

 bo issued by direction of the Council. 



Subscriptions shall be received by the Treasurer or Secretaries. 



Meetings. 



The Association shall meet annually, for one week, or longer. The place 

 of each Meeting shall be appointed by the General Committee two years in 

 advance ; and the Arrangements for it shall be entrusted to the Officers of 

 the Association. 



Ge7ieral Committee. 



The General 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 : — 



Class A. Permanent Members. 



1. Members of the Council, Presidents of the Association, and Presidents 

 of Sections for the present and preceding years, with Authors of Eeports in 

 the Transactions of the Association. 



2. Members who by the publication of Works or Papers have furthered 

 the advancement of those subjects which arc taken into consideration at the 

 Sectional Meetings of the Association. With a view of submitiioig new claims 

 under this Eule to the decision of the Council, theij must be sent to tJie Assistant 

 General 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. 



Class B. Temporary Members. 



1 . Presidents for the time being of any Scientific Societies publishing Trans- 

 actions or, in his absence, a delegate representing him. Claims under this Ride 

 to be sent to the Assistant General Secretary before the opening of the Meeting. 



2. Office-bearers for the time being, or delegates, altogether not exceeding 

 three, from Scientific Institutions established in the place _ of Meeting. 

 Claims under this Bide to be approved by the Loccd Secretaries before the 

 opening of the Meeting. 



3. Foreigners and' other individuals whose assistance is desired, and who 

 are specially nominated in writing, for the Meeting of the year, by the Pre- 

 sident and General Secretaries. 



4. Yice-Prcsidents and Secretaries of Sections. 



Organizing Sectional Committees'^. 



The Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries of the several Sections 

 are nominated by the Council, and have power to act iintil their names are 

 submitted to the General Committee for election. 



Prom the time of their nomination they constitute Organizing Committees 

 for the purpose of obtaining information upon the Memoirs and Reports 

 likely to be submitted to the Sections f, and of preparing Reports thereon, 



* Passed by the General Committee, Edinburgh, 1871. 



t Koti cc Conirilntors of Memoirs.— Kwihovs, are reminded that, under an arrange- 

 ment dating from 1871, the acceptance of Memoirs, and the dnj-s on -nhicli tluy are to be 



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