RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. XXVIl 



Meetings. 



The Association shall meet annually, for one week, or longer. The 

 place of each Meeting shall be appointed by the General Committee 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 : — 



Class A. Peemanent Members. 



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- 

 mitting new claims under this Bide to the decision of the Council, they must 

 be sent to the Secretary at least one month before the Meeting of the Associa- 

 tion. The decision of the Council on the claims of any Member of the Associa- 

 Hon to be placed on the list of the General Committee to be final. 



Class B, Tempokary Members.^ 



1. Delegates nominated by the Corresponding Societies under the 

 conditions hereinafter explained. Claims under this Rule to be sent to the 

 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. Yice-Presidents and Secretaries of Sections. 



Organising Sectional Committees.^ 



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 



' Eevised by the General Committee, 1884. 



^ Passed by the General Committee, Edinburgh, 1871 . 



' 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 lefore the beginning of the Meeting. It has therefore become 



