RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. XXXV 



5. In each Committee tlie Chairman is the only person entitled to 



call on the Treasurer, Professor A. W. Riicker, F.R.S., for 

 such portion of the sums granted as may from time to time be 

 required. 



6. Grants of money sanctioned at a meeting of the Association expire on 



June 30 following. The Treasui'er is not authorised after that 

 date to allow any claims on account of such grants. 



7. The Chairman of a Committee must, before the meeting of the Asso- 



ciation next following after the appointment or reappointment of 

 the Committee, forward to the Treasurer a statement of the sums 

 which have been received and expended, with vouchers. The 

 Chairman must also return the balance of the grant, if any, which 

 has been received and not spent ; or, if further expenditure is con- 

 templated, he must apply for leave to retain the balance. 



8. "When application is made for a Committee to be reappointed, and to 



retain the balance of a former grant which is in the hands of the 

 Chairman, and also to receive a further grant, the amount of such 

 farther grant is to be estimated as being additional to, and not 

 inclusive of, the balance proposed to be retained. 



9. 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. 



10. Members and Committees who may be entrusted with sums of money 



for collecting specimens of Natural History are requested to re- 

 serve the specimens so obtained to be dealt with by authority of 

 the Association. 



11. Committees are requested to furnish a list of any apparatus which 



may have been purchased out of a grant made by the Association, 

 and to state whether the apparatus will be useful for continuing 

 the research in question, or for other scientific purposes. 



12. All Instruments, Papers, Drawings, and other property of the Asso- 



ciation are to be deposited at the Office of the Association when 

 not employed in scientific inquiries for the Association. 



Business of the Sections. 



The Meeting Room of each Section is opened for conversation shortly 

 before the meeting commences. The Section Rooms and approaches thereto 

 can he used for no notices, exhibitions, or other purposes than those of the 

 Association. 



At the time appointed the Chair will be taken,^ and the reading of 

 communications, in the order previously made public, commenced. 



Sections may, by the desire of the Committees, divide themselves into 

 Departments, as often as the number and nature of the communications 

 delivered in may render such divisions desirable. 



' The Organising Committee of a Section is empowered to arrange the hours 

 of meeting of the Section and Sectional Committee, except for Thursday and 

 Saturday. 



