XXU RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. 



Secretaries or Treasurer a statement of the sums which have heen expended, 

 and the balance which remains disposable on each grant. 



Grants of money sanctioned at any one meeting of the Association expire 

 « iveeh before the opening of the ensuing Meeting; nor is the Treasurer 

 authorized, after that date, to allow any claims on account of such grants, 

 unless they be renewed in the original or a modified form by the General 

 Committee. 



No Committee shall raise money in the name or under the auspices of the 

 Britisli Association without special permission from the General Committee 

 to do so ; and no monc}'- so raised shall bo expended except in accordance 

 with the rules of the Association. 



In each Committee, the Member first named is the only pei'son entitled to 

 call on the Treasurer, Professor A. W. Williamson, University College, London, 

 W.C, for such portion of the sums granted as may from time to time be 

 required. 



In grants of money to Committees, the Association does not contemplate 

 the payment of personal expenses to the members. 



In all cases where additional grants of money arc made for the continua- 

 tion of Eesearches at the cost of the Association, the sum named is deemed 

 to include, as a part of the amount, whatever balance may remain unpaid on 

 the former grant for the same object. 



All Instruments, Papers, Drawings, and other property of the Association 

 are to be deposited at the Office of the Association, 22 Albemarle Street, 

 Piccadilly, London, W., when not employed in carrying on scientific inquiries 

 for the Association. 



Business of the Sections. 



The Meeting Itoom of each Section is opened for conversation from 10 to 

 11 daily. The Section Rooms and approaches thereto can he used for no notices, 

 exhibitions, or other purp)oses than those of the Association. 



At 11 precisely the Chair will be taken, and the reading of communica- 

 tions, in the order previously made public, be commenced. At 3 p.m. the 

 Sections will close. 



Sections may, by the desire of the Committees, divide themselves into 

 Departments, as often as the number and nature of the communications de- 

 hvered in may render such divisions desirable. 



A Ileport presented to the Association, and read to the Section which 

 originally called for it, may be read in another Section, at the request of the 

 Officers of that Section, with the consent of the Author. 



Duties of the Doorkeepers. 



1. — To remain constantly at the Doors of the Rooms to which they are ap- 

 pointed during the whole time for which they are engaged. 

 2. — To recjuire of every person desirous of entering the Rooms the exhibi- 

 tion of a Member's, Associate's or Lady's Ticket, or Reporter's Ticket, 

 signed by the Treasurer, or a Special Ticket signed by the Assistant 

 General Secretary. 

 3- — Persons unprovided with any of these Tickets can only be admitted to 

 any particiUar Room by order of the Secretary in that Room. 

 _ No person is exempt from these Rules, except those Officers of the Asso- 

 ciation whose names are printed. 



