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 Rooms, 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, Priday, Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday, from 10 to 

 11 a.m., punctually, for the objects stated in the Rules of the Association, 

 and specified below. 



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

 1. — The President shall call on the Secretary to read the Minutes of tho 



previous Meetiug of the Committee. 

 2. — No Paper shall bo read until it has been formally accepted by tho Com- 

 mittee of the Section, and entered on the Minutes accordingly. 

 3. — Papers which have been reported on unfavourably by the Organizing 

 Committees shall not be brought before the Sectional Committees f. 

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

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

 Recommendations adopted at the last Meeting of the Association and printed 

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

 Report of the Organizing Committee %. The List of Communications to be 

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



Sections before the beginning of the Meeting. It has 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^ 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. 



t These rules were adopted by the General Committee, Plymouth, 1877. 



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



