XVI 



RULES OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. 



Publication. 



Copyright. 



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 Committee. 



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 Research Committees shall not be published elsewhere than in 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. 



Chapter X. 

 Admission of Members* 



ApplicafcioBs. 1. No technical qualification shall be required on the 



part of au applicant for admission as a Member of the 

 British Association ; but the Council is empowered, in the 

 event of special circumstances arising, to impose suitable 

 conditions and restrictions in this respect. 



Obligations. Every person admitted as a Member shall conform to 



the Rules and Regulations of the Association, and for any 

 infringement thereof shall be liable to exclusion by the 

 Council, who have also authority, if they think it necessary, 

 to withhold from any person tlie privilege of attending any 



* Ameuded by the General Committee, 1908, 1918, 1919. 



