RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. Xxi 



Socretaries are to correct, ou a copy of the Journal, the list of papers which 

 have been read on that day, to add to it a list of those appointed to be read 

 on the next day, and to send this copy of the Journal as early in the day as 

 possible to the Printers, who are charged with printing the same before 8 a.m. 

 next morning in the Journal. It is necessary that one of the Secretaries of 

 each Section should caU at the Printing Office and revise the proof each 

 evening. 



Minutes of the proceedings of every Committee are to be entered daily in 

 the Minute-Book, which should be confirmed at the next meeting of the 

 Committee. 



Lists of the Eeports and Memoirs read in the Sections are to be entered 

 in the Minute-Book daily, which, with all Memoirs and Copies or Abstracts 

 of Memoirs furnished by Authors, are to be forwarded, at the close of the Sec- 

 tional Meetings, to the Assistant General Secretary. 



The Vice-Presidents and Secretaries of Sections become ex officio temporary 

 Members of the General Committee (vide p. xix)," and will receive, on ap- 

 plication to the Treasurer in the Eeception Eoom, Tickets entitling them to 

 attend its Meetings. 



The Committees will take into consideration any suggestions which may 

 be offered by their Members for the advancement of Science. They are 

 specially requested to review the recommendations adopted at preceding 

 Meetings, as published in the volumes of the Association and the communi- 

 cations made to the Sections at this Meeting, for the purposes of selecting 

 definite points of research to which individual or combined exertion may be 

 usefully directed, and branches of knowledge on the state and progress of 

 Avhich Eeports ai-e wanted ; to name individuals or Committees for the exe- 

 cution of such Eeports or researches ; and to state whether, and to what de- 

 gree, these objects may be usefuUy advanced by the appropriation of the 

 funds of the Association, by application to Government, Philosophical Insti- 

 tutions, or Local Authorities. 



In case of appointment of Committees for special objects of Science, it is 

 expedient that all Members of the Committee shoidd be named, and one of 

 them appointed to act as Secretary, for insuring attention to husiness. 



Committees have power to add to their number persons whose assistance 

 they may require. 



The recommendations adopted by the Committees of Sections are to be 

 registered in the Forms furnished to their Secretaries, and one Copy of each 

 is to be forwarded, without delay, to the Assistant General Ser-retary for pre- 

 sentation to the Committee of Eecommendations. Unless this be done, the 

 Recommendations cannot receive the sanction of the Association. 



N.B. — Eecommendations which may originate in any one of the Sections 

 must first be sanctioned by the Committee of that Section before they can be 

 referred to the Committee of Eecommendations or confirmed by the General 

 Committee. 



Notices Regarding Grants of Money. 



Committees and individuals, to -whom grants of money have been entrusted 

 by the Association for the prosecution of particular researches in Science, 

 are required to present to each following Meeting of the Association a Ecport 

 of the progress which has been made ; and the Individual or the Member first 

 named of a Committee to whom a money grant has been made must (pre- 

 viously to the next meeting of the Association) forward to the General 



