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(c) A Sectional Committee may, at any time during the Additional 

 Annual Meeting, appoint not more than three persons Jice-Presi- 

 present at the meeting to be Vice-Presidents of the 

 Section, in addition to those previously appointed 

 by the Council. 



5. The chief executive officers of a Section shall be the Executive 

 President and the Recorder. They shall have power to act on Functions 

 behalf of the Section in any matter of urgency which cannot 



be brought before the consideration of the Sectional Com- 

 mittee ; and they shall report such action to the Sectional 

 Committee at its next meeting. 



The President (or, in his absence, one of the Vice-Presi- Of President 

 dents) shall preside at all meetings of the Sectional Committee 

 or of the Section. His ruling shall be absolute on all points 

 of order that may arise. 



The Recorder shall be responsible for the punctual trans- and of 

 mission to the Assistant Secretary of the daily programme of I^ecoider. 

 his Section, of the recommendations adopted by the Sectional 

 Committee, of the printed returns, abstracts, reports, or papers 

 appertaining to the proceedings of his Section at the Annual 

 Meeting, and for the correspondence and minutes of the 

 Sectional Committee. 



6. The Sectional Committee shall nominate, before the Organising 

 close of the Annual Meeting, not more than six of its own Committee, 

 members to be members of an Organising Committee, with 



the officers to be subsequently appointed by the Council, and 

 past Presidents of the Section, from the close of the Annual 

 Meeting until the conclusion of its meeting on the first day of 

 the ensuing Annual Meeting. 



Each Organising Committee shall hold such meetings as 

 are deemed necessary by its President for the organisation 

 of the ensuing Sectional proceedings, and shall hold a meeting 

 on the first Wednesday of the Annual Meeting : to nominate 

 members of the Sectional Committee, to confirm the Pro- 

 visional Programme of the Section, and to report to the 

 Sectional Committee. 



Each Sectional Committee shall meet daily, unless other- Sectional 

 wise determined, during the Annual Meeting : to co-opt *^'°™'^i"«=®- 

 members, to complete the arrangements for the next day, and 

 to take into consideration any suggestion for the advance- 

 ment of Science that may be offered by a member, or may 

 arise out of the proceedings of the Section. 



No paper shall be read in any Section until it has been Papers and 

 accepted by the Sectional Committee and entered as accepted Reports. 

 on its Minutes. 



