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. Permanent Meitbers. 



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

 of Sections for the present and preceding years, with Authors of Eeports 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 suhmitting neiv claims 

 under this Rule to the decision of the Council, tlicy 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 

 be placed on the list of the General Committee to be final. 



Class E. Tempoeart Members, 



1. ThePresidentfor the time being of any Scientific Society pubhshing Trans- 

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

 to be sent to the Assistant General Secretary before the ojocniny of the Meetimj. 



2. Office-bearers for the time being, or delegates, altogether not exceeding 

 three, from Scientific Institutions established in tlie place of Meeting. 

 Claims under tiiis Bide to be ap^jrovcd by the Loccd Secretaries before the 



opening of the Meeting. 



3. Poreigners and other individuals whose assistance is desired, and who 

 are specially nominated in writing, for the Meetriig 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. 



From the time of their nomination they constitute Organizing Committees 

 for the purpose of obtnining information upon the Memoirs and Eeports 

 likely to be submitted to the Scetionsf, and of preparing Picports thereon, 



* Passed by the General Committee, Edinburgh, 1871. 



t Notice to Covtrihvlorf: of Memoirs.— AxAhoYi are reminded that, under an arrange- 

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



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