XXX RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION., 



can be referred to the Committee of Recommendations or confirmed by 

 the General Committee. 



The Committees of the Sections shall ascertain whether a Report 

 has been made by every Committee appointed at the previous Meeting- 

 to whom a sum of money has been granted, and shall report to the Com- 

 mittee of Recommendations in every case where no sucb Report has been 

 received.' 



Notices regarding Grants of Money. 



Committees and individuals, to whom grants of money have been 

 entrusted by the Association for the prosecution of particular researches- 

 in science, are required to present to each following Meeting of the 

 Association a Report of the progress which has been made ; and the 

 Individual or the Member first named of a Committee to whom a money 

 grant has been made must (previously to the next Meeting of the Associa- 

 tion) forward to the General Secretaries or Treasurer a statement of the 

 sums which have been expended, and the balance which remains dispos- 

 able on each grant. 



Grants of money sanctioned at any one Meeting of the Association 

 expire a lueeh before the opening of the ensuing Meeting: nor is the 

 Treasui'er authorized, after that date, to allow any claims on account of 

 such grants, unless they be renewed in the original or a modified form by 

 the General Committee. 



No Committee shall raise money in the name or under the auspices of 

 the British Association without special permission from the General Com- 

 mittee to do so ; and no money so raised shall be expended except in 

 accordance with the rules of the Association. 



In each Committee, the Member first named is the only person entitled 

 to call on the Treasurer, Pi'ofessor A. W. Williamson, University College, 

 London, W.C., for such portion of the sums granted as may from time to 

 time be required. 



In grants of money to Committees, the Association does not contem- 

 plate the payment of personal expenses to the members. 



In all cases where additional grants of money are made for the con- 

 tinuation of Researches at the cost of the Association, the sum named is 

 deemed to include, as a part of the amount, whatever balance may remain 

 unpaid on the former grant for the same object. 



All Instruments, Papers, Di-awings, and other property of the Associa- 

 tion are to be deposited at the Ofifice of the Association, 22 Albemarle 

 Street, Piccadilly, London, W., when not employed in carrying on scien- 

 tific inquiries for the Association. 



Business of the Sections. 



The Meeting Room of each Section is opened for conversation from 

 10 to 11 daily. TJie Section Rooms and approaches thereto can he used for 

 no notices, exhibitions, or other purposes than those of the Association. 



At 11 precisely the Chair will be taken, and the reading of communi- 

 cations, in the order previously made public, commenced. At 3 p.m. the 

 Sections will close. 



Sections may, by the desire of the Committees, divide themselves into 

 Departments, as often as the number and nature of the communications 

 delivered in may render such divisions desirable. 



* Passed by the General Committee at Sheffield, 1879. 



