XXXll RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. 



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 taten 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.^ 



Corresponding Societies} 



1. Any Society is eligible to be placed on the List of Corresponding 

 Societies of the Association which undertakes local scientific investiga- 

 tions, and publishes notices of the results. 



2. Application may be made by any Society to be placed on the 

 List of Corresponding Societies. Applications must be addressed to the 

 Secretary on or before the 1st of June preceding the Annual Meeting at 

 which it is intended they should be considered, and must be accompanied 

 by specimens of the publications of the results of the local scientifia 

 investigations recently undertaken by the Society. 



3. A Corresponding Societies Committee shall be annually nomi- 

 nated by the Council and appointed by the General Committee for the 

 purpose of considering these applications, as well as for that of keeping 

 themselves generally informed of the annual work of the Corresponding 

 Societies, and of superintending the preparation of a list of the papers, 

 published by them. This Committee shall make an annual report to the 

 General Committee, and shall suggest such additions or changes in the 

 List of Corresponding Societies as they may think desirable. 



4. Every Corresponding Society shall return each year, on or before the 

 1st of June, to the Secretary of the Association, a schedule, properly filled 

 up, which will be issued by the Secretary of the Association, and which will 

 contain a request for such particulars with regard to the Society as may 

 be required for the information of the Corresponding Societies Committee. 



6. There shall be inserted in the Annual Report of the Association 



> Passed by the General Committee at Newcastle, 1863. 



* Passed by the General Committee at Birmingham, 1865, 

 ' Passed by the General Committee at Leeds, 1890. 



* Passed by the General Committee, 1884. 



