RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. XX1I1 



3. Members may purchase (for the purpose of completing their sets) 

 any of the tirst seventeen volumes of Transactions of the 

 Association, and of which more than 100 copies remain, at 

 one third of the Publication Price. Application to be made 

 at the Office of the Association, 22 Albemarle Street, Lon- 

 don, W.. 



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 Presi- 

 dents 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 fur- 

 thered the advancement of those subjects which are taken into considera- 

 tion at the Sectional Meetings of the Association. With a view of sub- 

 mitting new claims under this Bide to the decision of the Council, they must 

 be sent to the Assistant Secretary at least one month before the Meeting 

 of the Association.- Tlie 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 B t Temporary Members. 



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

 ing Transactions or, in his absence, a delegate representing him. Claims 

 under this Rule to be sent to the Assistant Secretary before the opening of the 

 Meeting. 



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

 ceeding three,- from Scientific Institutions established in the place of 

 Meeting. Claims umler- 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 President and General Secretaries. 



4. Vice-Presidents and Secretaries of Sections. 



Organizing Sectional Committees-.* 



The Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Secretaries of the several Sec- 

 tions are nominated by the Council, and have power to act until their 

 names are submitted to the General Committee for election. 

 * Passad by the General Committee, Edinburgh, 1871. 



