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 Members. 



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

 of Sections for the present and preceding years, with Authors of Reports 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 view of submitting new claims 

 under this Hide to the decision of the Council, they must be 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 P>. Temporary Members. 



1. The President for the time being of any Scientific Society publishing Trans- 

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

 to be sent to the Assistant General Secretary before the opening of the Meeting. 



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

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

 Claims under this Hide to be approved by the Local Secretaries before the 



opening of the Meeting. 



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

 are specially nominated in writing, for the Meeting 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 aro 

 submitted to the General Committee for election. 



From the time of their nomination they constitute Organizing Committees 

 for the purpose of obtaining information upon the Memoirs and Reports 

 likely to be submitted to the Sections f, and of preparing Reports thereon, 



* Passed by the General Committee, Edinburgh, 1871. 



t Notice to Contributors of Memoirs. — Authors are reminded that, under an arrange- 

 ment dating from 1871, the acceptance of Memoirs, and the days on which they are to bo 

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



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