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 : — 



Class A. Permakent Members. 



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

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

 the Tranr.actions 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 submitting new claims 

 under this Bule to the decision of the Council, tliey must he sent to the Assistant 

 G'enercd 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 lilaced on the list of the General Committee to be final. 



Class B. Temporary Memeers. 



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 Ride 

 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 Hide to be apjiroved 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-Pi'esidents 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. 



From the time of their nomination they constitute Organizing Committees 

 for the purpose of obtaining information upon the Mcmoii's and Eeports 

 likely to be submitted to the Sectionsf, and of preparing Eeports thereon, 



* Passed by the General Committee, Edinburgh, 1871. 



t Knt.icR to Contrihxtors of Memoirs.— \\\\\\ors are reminded tliat, under an arranjre- 

 ment dating 'rem 1871, the acceptance of Memoirs, and the days on which they are to be 



