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 such preliminary Meetings as the 

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

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

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

 Committee shall 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 the 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 Eooms, and enlarge the Sectional Committees by selecting individuals 

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

 sistance they may particularly 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-Book, 

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

 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 Hules of the Association, 

 and specified below. 



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



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

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

 Eecommendations adopted at the last Meeting of the Association and printed 

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

 Eeport of the Organizing Committee f. The List of Communications to he 

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

 business throughout the week shall be provisionally appointed. At the close 

 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 tbe several 

 Sections before the hcgivnivg of the Meeting. It bas 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--" General 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. 

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



