X3:xii REPORT — 1897. 



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. The Sectional Presidents of former years are ex oficio members 

 of the Organising Sectional Committees.' 



An Organising 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 nominate the first members of the Sectional Committee, if 

 they shall consider it expedient to do so, and to settle the terms of their 

 report to the Sectional Committee, after which their functions as an 

 Organising 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- 

 Eook, 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, and on the 

 following Thursday, Friday, Saturday,'' Monday, and Tuesday, for the 

 objects stated in the Rules of the Association. The Organising Committee 

 of a Section is empowered to arrange the hours of meeting of the Section 

 and the Sectional Committee except for Thursday and Saturday.^ 



The business is to be conducted in the foUowingr manner : — 



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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 



necessary, in order to give an opportunity to the Committees of doing justice to the 

 several Communicatious, 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 to the General Secretaries, at the office of 



the Association. 'For Section ' If it should be inconvenient to the Author 



that his paper should be read on any particular days, he is requested to send in- 

 formation thereof to the Secretaries in a separate note. Authors who send in their 

 MSS. three complete weeks before the Meeting, and whose papers are accepted, 

 will be furnished, before the Meeting, with printed copies of their Reports and 

 abstracts. No Report, Paper, or Abstract can be inserted in the Annual Volume 

 unless it is handed either to the Recorder of the Section or to the Assistant General 

 Secretary before the conclusion of the Meeting. 



' Sheffield, 1879. 2 Swansea, 1880. ^ Edinburgh, 1871. 



♦ The meeting on Saturday is optional, Southport, 1883. ^ Nottingham, 1893. 



