RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. xxix 
Meetings. 
The Association shall meet annually, for one week, or longer. The 
place of each Meeting shall be appointed by the General Committee not 
less than 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 :— 
Cuass A. Prnmanent MempBers. 
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- 
matting new claims under this Rule to the decision of the Council, they must be 
sent to the Assistant General Secretary at least one month before the Meeting 
of the Association. The decision of the Council on the claims of any Member 
of the Association tu be placed on the list of the General Committee to be final. 
Crass B. TrEmporary Mrempers.? 
1. Delegates nominated by the Corresponding Societies under the 
conditions hereinafter explained. Claims under this Rule to be sent to the 
Assistant General 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 under this Rule 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. 
Organising Sectional Vommittees.3 
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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. 
From the time of their nomination they constitute Organising Com- 
mittees for the purpose of obtaining information upon the Memoirs and 
Reports likely to be submitted to the Sections,‘ and of preparing Reports 
1 Revised by the General Committee, Liverpool, 1596. 
2 Revised, Montreal, 1884. 
3 Passed, Edinburgh, 1871. 
4 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 Organising Committees 
for the several Sections before the beginning of the Meeting. It has therefore become 
