P< RULES OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION, 
CHAPTER V. 
The Council. 
Constitution. 1. The Council shall consist of ex officio Members and of 
Ordinary Members elected annually by the General Com- 
mittee. 
(i) The ex officio Members are—the Trustees, past Presi- 
dents of the Association, the President and Vice- 
Presidents for the year, the President and Vice- 
Presidents Elect, past and present General Treasurers 
and General Secretaries, past Assistant General 
Secretaries, and the Local Treasurers and Local 
Secretaries for the ensuing Annual Meeting. 
(ii) The Ordinary Members shall not exceed twenty-five in 
number. Of these, not more than twenty shall have 
served on the Council as Ordinary Members in the 
previous year. 
Functions. 2. The Council shall have authority to act, in the name and 
on behalf of the Association, in all matters which do not con- 
flict with the functions of the General Committee. 
In the interval between two Annual Meetings, the Council 
shall manage the affairs of the Association and may fill up 
vacancies among the General and other Officers, until the next 
Annual Meeting. 
The Council shall hold such meetings as they may think 
fit, and shall in any case meet on the first day of the Annual 
Meeting, in order to complete and adopt the Annual Report, 
and to consider other matters to be brought before the General 
Committee. 
The Council shall nominate for election by the General 
Committee, at each Annual Meeting, a President and General 
Officers of the Association. 
Suggestions for the Presidency shall be considered by the 
Council at the Meeting in February, and the names selected 
shall be issued with the summonses to the Council Meeting in 
March, when the nomination shall be made from the names 
on the list. 
The Council shall have power to appoint and dismiss 
such paid officers as may be necessary to carry on the work 
of the Association, on such terms as they may from time to 
time determine. 
