XX RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. 



and on the order in which it is desirable that they should be read, to be pre- 

 sented to the Committees of the Sections at their first Meeting. 



An Organizing Committee may also hold snch preliminary Meetings as the 

 President of the Committee thinks expedient, but sliall, under any circum- 

 stances, meet on the first Wednesday of the Annual Meeting, at 11 a.m., to 

 settle the terms of their Report, after which tlieir functions as an Organizing 

 Committee shaR cease. 



Constitution of the Sectional Committees *. 



On the first day of the Annual Meeting, the President, Vice-Presidents, 

 and Secretaries of each Section having been appointed by tlie General Com- 

 mittee, these Officers, and those previous Presidents and Vice-Presidents of 

 the Section who may desire to attend, are to meet, at 2 p.m., in their Com- 

 mittee Ilooms, and enlarge the Sectional Committees by selecting individuals 

 from among the Members (not Associates) present at the Meeting whose as- 

 sistance they may particulai-ly desire. The Sectional Committees thus con- 

 stituted shall have power to add to their number from day to day. 



The List thus formed is to be entered daily in the Sectional Minute-Pook, 

 and a copy forwarded without delay to the Printer, who is charged Avith 

 publishing the same before 8 a.m. on the next day, in the Journal of the 

 Sectional Proceedings. 



Business of the Sectional Committees. 



Committee Meetings are to be held on the "Wednesday at 2 p.m., on the 

 following Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday, from 10 to 

 11 A.M., punctually, for the objects stated in the Eules of the Association, 

 and specified below. 



The business is to be conducted in the following manner : — 



At the first meeting, one of the Secretaries wiU read the Minutes of last 

 year's proceedings, as recorded in the Minute-Book, and the Synopsis of 

 Eecommcndatious adopted at the last Meeting of the Association and piinted 

 in the last volume of the Transactions. He will next proceed to read the 

 Peport of the Organizing Committee f. The List of Communications to be 

 read on Thursday shall be then arranged, and the general distribution of 

 business throughout the week shall be provisionally ai)pointed. At the cltse 

 of the Committee Meeting the Secretaries shall forward to the Printer a List 

 of the Papers appointed to be read. The Printer is charged with publishing 

 the same before 8 a.m. on Thursday in the Journal. 



On the second day of the Annual Meeting, and the following days, the 



read, are now as far as possible determined by Organizing Committees for the several 

 Sections before the hegiiming of the Meeting. It has therefore become necessary, in order 

 to give an opportunity to the Committees of doing justice to the several Communications, 

 that each Author should prepare an Abstract of his Memoir, of a length suitable for in- 

 sertion in the published Transactions of the Association, and that he should send it, toge- 

 ther with the original Memoir, by book-post, on or before , addressed 



thus — " Genei'al Secretaries, British Association, 22 Albemarle Street, London, W. For 



Section " If it should be inconvenient to the Author that his Paper should be read 



on any particular days, he is requested to send information thereof to the Secretaries in a 

 separate note. 



* Passed by the General Committee, Edinburgh, 1871. 



t This and the following sentence were added by the General Committee, 1871. 



