XXliv RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. 



07ie of them appointed to act as Chairman, who shall have notified per- 

 sonally or in writing Ms vnllingness to accept the office, the Chairman to have 

 the responsibility of receiving and dishursivg the grant (if any hasleen made) 

 and securing the presentation of the Report in due time ; and, fiirtlLer, it is 

 expedient that one of the members should he appointed to act as Secretary, for 

 ensuring attention to business. 



That it is desirable that the number of Members appointed to serve on a 

 Committee should be as small as is consistent with its efficient ivorking. 



That a tabular list of the Committees appointed on the recommendation 

 of each Section shoidd be sent each year to the Recorders of the several Sec- 

 tions, to enable them to fill in the statement ivhether the several Committees 

 appointed on the recommendation of their respective Sections had presented 

 their reports. 



That on the proposal to recommend the appointment of a Committee for a 

 special object of science having been adopted by the Sectional Committee, the 

 number of Members of such Committee be thoi, fixed, hut that the Members to 

 serve on such Committee be nominated and selected by the Sectional Com- 

 mittee at a subsequent meeting.^ 



Committees have powei- to add to their number persons whose assist- 

 ance they may require. 



The i-ecommendations adopted by the Committees of Sections are to 

 be registered in the Forms furnished to their Secretaries, and one Copy of 

 each is to be forwarded, without delay, to the Assistant General Secretary 

 for pi'esentation to the Committee of Becommendations. Unless this he 

 dono. the Recommendations cannot receive the sanction of the Association. 



N.B. — Recommendations which may oi'iginate in any one of the Sections 

 must first be sanctioned by the Committee of that Section before they can 

 be referred to the Committee of Recommendations or confirmed by the 

 General Committee. 



The Committees of the Sections shall ascertain whether a Report has 

 been made by every Committee appointed at the previous Meeting to whom 

 a sum of money has been granted, and shall report to the Committee of 

 Recommendations in every case where no such Report has been received.^ 



Notices regarding Grants of Money. 



Committees and individuals to whom grants of money have been 

 entrusted by the Association for the prosecution of particular researches 

 in science are required to present to each following Meeting of the 

 Association a Report of the progress which has been made ; and the 

 Chairman of a Committee to whom a money grant has been made must 

 forward to the General Officers, before July 1, a statement of the sums 

 which have been expended, with vouchers, and the balance which 

 remains disposable on each grant. 



Grants of money sanctioned at any one Meeting of the Association 

 expire on June 3U following ; nor is the Treasurer authorised, after that 

 date, to allow any claims on account of such grants, unless they be 

 renewed in the original or a modified form by the General Committee. 



No Committee shall raise money in the name or under the auspices 

 of the British Association without special permission from the General 



' Revised by the General Committee, Bath, 1888. 



' Passed by the General Committee at Sheffield, 1879. 



