XXIV RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. 



read, to be presented to the Committees of the Sections at their first 

 meeting. The 1 Sectional Presidents of former years are ex officio members 

 of the Organizing Sectional Committees. 



An Organizing Committee may also hold such preliminary meetings as 

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

 circumstances, meet on the first Wednesday of the Annual Meeting, at 

 11 A.M., to settle the terms of their Report, after which their functions as 

 an Organizing Committee shall cease. 



Constitution of the Sectional Committees. 2 



On the first day of the Annual Meeting, the President, Vice-Presi- 

 dents, and Secretaries of each Section having been appointed by the 

 General Committee, these Officers, and those previous Presidents and 

 Vice-Presidents of the Section who may desire t'o attend, are to meet, at 

 2 p.m., in their Committee Rooms, and enlarge the Sectional Committees 

 by selecting individuals from among the Members (not Associates) present 

 at the Meeting whose assistance they may particularly desire. The Sec- 

 tional Committees thns constituted 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 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 



the previous Meeting of the Committee. 



2. No paper shall be read until it has been formally accepted by the 



Committee of the Section, and entered on the minutes accord- 

 ingly. 



3. Papers which have been reported on unfavourably by the Organiz- 



ing Committees shall not be brought before the Sectional 



Committees. 3 

 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 



and that lie should send it, together with the original Memoir, by book-post, on or 

 before .addressed thus— " General Secretaries, British Associa- 

 tion, 22 Albemarle Street, London, W. For Section " If it should be incon- 

 venient 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. Authors 

 who send in their MSS. a full three weeks before the Meeting, and whose papers 

 are accepted, will be furnished, before the Meeting, with printed copies of their 

 Reports and Abstracts. No Report, Paper, or Abstract can be inserted in the Annual 

 Volume unless it is handed either to the Recorder of the Section or to the Assistant 

 Secretary, before the conclusion of the Meeting. 



1 Added by the General Committee, Sheffield, 1879. 



2 Passed by the General Committee, Edinburgh, 1871. 



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



