XXXV BULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. 



From the time of their nomination they constitute Organizing Com- 

 mittees for the purpose of obtaining information upon the Memoirs and 

 Reports likely to be submitted to the Sections,* and of preparing Reports 

 thereon, and on the order in which it is desirable that they should be 

 read, to be presented 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 

 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.] 



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 to 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 thus 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. J 



* Notice to Contributors of Memoirs. — Authors are reminded that, under an 

 arrangement dating from 1871, the acceptance of Memoirs, and the days on which 

 they are to be read, are now as far as possible determined by Organizing Committees 

 for the several 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 insertion in the published Transactions of the Association, 

 and that he 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. 



j- Passed by the General Committee, Edinburgh, 1871. 



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



