XXX1V REPORT—1896. 
A Report presented to the Association, and read to the Section which 
originally called for it, may be read in another Section, at the request of 
the Officers of that Section, with the consent of the Author. 
Duties uf the Doorkeepers. 
1. To remain constantly at the Doors of the Rooms to which they are 
appointed during the whole time for which they are engaged. 
2. To require of every person desirous of entering the Rooms the ex- 
hibition of a Member’s, Associate’s, or Lady’s Ticket, or Reporter’s 
Ticket, signed by the Treasurer, or a Special Ticket signed by the 
Assistant General Secretary. 
3. Persons unprovided with any of these Tickets can only be admitted 
to any particular Room by order of the Secretary in that Room. 
No person is exempt from these Rules, except those Officers of the 
Association whose names are printed in the Programme, p. 1. 
Duties of the Messengers. 
To remain constantly at the Rooms to which they are appointed dur- 
ing the whole time for which they are engaged, except when employed cn 
messages by one of the Officers directing these Rooms. 
Committee of Recommendations. 
The General Committee shall appoint at each Meeting a Committee, 
which shall receive and consider the Recommendations of the Sectional 
Committees, and report to the General Committee the measures which 
they would advise to be adopted for the advancement of Science. 
Presidents of the Association in former years are ex officio members of 
the Committee of Recommendations.! 
All Recommendations of Grants of Money, Requests for Special Re- 
searches, and Reports on Scientific Subjects shall be submitted to the 
Committee of Recommendations, and not taken into consideration by the 
General Committee unless previously recommended by the Committee of 
Recommendations. 
All proposals for establishing new Sections, or altering the titles of 
Sections, or for any other change in the constitutional forms and funda- 
mental rules of the Association, shall be referred to the Committee of 
Recommendations for a report.” 
If the President of a Section is unable to attend a meeting of the 
Committee of Recommendations, the Sectional Committee shall be 
authorised to appoint a Vice-President, or, failing a Vice-President, 
some other member of the Committee, to attend in his place, due notice 
of the appointment being sent to the Assistant General Secretary.® 
1 Passed by the General Committee at Newcastle, 1863. 
? Passed by the General Committee at Birmingham, 1865. 
® Passed by the General Committee at Leeds, 1890. 
