RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. xix 
- Volumes not claimed within two years of the date of publication can only 
be 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. 
General 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 ;— 
Crass A, Permanent Mempers. 
1. Members of the Council, Presidents of the Association, and Presidents 
of Sections for the present and preceding years, with Authors of Reports in 
the Transactions of the Association. 
2. Members who by the publication of Works or Papers have furthered 
the advancement of those subjects which are taken into consideration at the 
Sectional Meetings of the Association. With a view of submitting new claims 
under this Rule to the decision of the Council, they must be sent to the 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. 
Crass B. Temporary Members. 
1. The President for the time being of any Scientific Society publishing Trans- 
_ actions or, in his absence, a delegate representing him. Claims under this Rule 
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 Mecting. 
‘Claims under this Rule to be approved by the Local 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, Vice-Presidents 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 until their names are 
submitted to the General Committee for election. c 
From 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}, and of preparing Reports thereon, 
* Passed by the General Committee, Edinburgh, 1871. | 
. t Notice to Contributors of Memoirs.—Authors are reminded that, under an arrange- 
ment dating from 1871, the acceptance of Memoirs, and the days on which — to be 
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