XVI 



RULES OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. 



Papers and 

 Keports. 



Escommen- 

 dations. 



Publication. 



Copyright. 



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

 accepted by the Sectional Committee and entered as accepted 

 on its Minutes. 



Any report or paper read in any one Section may be read 

 also in any other Section. 



No paper or abstract of a paper shall be printed in the 

 Annual Report of the Association unless the manuscript has 

 been received by the Recorder of the Section before the close 

 of the Annual Meeting. 



T^ shall be within the competence of the Sectional Com- 

 mittee to review the recommendations adopted at preceding 

 Annual Meetings, as published in the Annual Reports of the 

 Association, and the communications made to the Section at 

 its current meetings, for the purpose of selecting definite 

 objects of research, in the promotion of which individual or 

 concerted action may be usefully employed ; and, further, to 

 take into consideration those branches or aspects of knowledge 

 on the state and progress of which reports are required : to 

 make recommendations and nominate individuals or Research 

 Committees to whom the preparation of such reports, or the task 

 of research, may be entrusted, discriminating as to whether, 

 and in what respects, these objects may be usefully advanced 

 by the appropriation of money from the funds of the Associa- 

 tion, whether by reference to local authorities, public institu- 

 tions, or Departments of His Majesty's Government. The 

 appointment of such Research Committees shall be made in 

 accordance with the provisions of Chapter IV. 



No proposal arising out of the proceedings of any Section 

 shall be referred to the Committee of Recommendations unless 

 it shall have received the sanction of the Sectional Com- 

 mittee. 



7. Papers ordered to be printed in extenso shall not be 

 included in the Annual Report, if published elsewhere prior 

 to the issue of the Annual Report in volume form. Reports 

 of Research Committees shall not be published elsewhere 

 than in the Annual Report without the express sanction of 

 the Council. 



8. The copyright of papers ordered by the General Com- 

 mittee to be printed in extenso in the Annual Report shall 

 be vested in the authors ; and the copyright of the reports 

 of Research Committees appointed by the General Committee 

 shall be vested in the Association, 



