KULES 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 : — 



' CtAss 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 lleports 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 vieiv of submittivg neiu claims 

 under this Rule to the decision of the Council, they must he 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 

 he placed on the list of the General Committee to hejinal. 



Class B. Temporary Members. 



1. The Presidentfor the time beiAg of any Scientific Society publishing Trans- 

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

 to he 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 Ride to he approved by the Local Secretaries before the 

 opening of the Electing. 



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-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. 



Prom the time of their nomination they constitute Organizing Committees 

 for the purpose of obtaining information upon the Memoirs and Eeports 

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



* Passed by the General Committee, Edinburgh, 1871. 



+ Notice to Conirifnitors of Mcnwirs.— Au\hcrs are reminded that, under an arrange- 

 ment dating from 1871, the acceptance of MeiKoirs, and the days on which they are to be 



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