RESEARCH COMMITTEES. IX 



meantime present a Report through a Sectional Organising 

 Committee to the Council.* Interim Reports, whether in- 

 tended for publication or not, must be submitted in writing. 

 Each Sectional Committee shall ascertain whether a Report 

 has been made by each Research Committee appointed on their 

 recommendation, and shall report to the Committee of Recom- 

 mendations on or before the Monday of the Annual Meeting. 



6. In each Research Committee to which a grant of money grants 



has been made, the Chairman is the only person entitled to call (."') Drawn by 

 on the General Treasurer for such portion of the sum granted 

 as from time to time may be required. 



Grants of money sanctioned at the Annual Meeting (ft) Expire on 

 expire on June 30 following. The General Treasurer is not ^°® 

 authorised, after that date, to allow any claims on account of 

 such grants. 



The Chairman of a Research Committee must, before (c) Accounts, 

 the Annual Meeting next following the appointment of fnd balance 

 the Research Committee, forward to the General Treasurer 

 a statement of the sums that have been received and ex- 

 pended, together with vouchers. The Chairman must then 

 return the balance of the grant, if any, which remains un- 

 expended ; provided that a Research Committee may, in the 

 first year of its appointment only, apply for leave to retain 

 an unexpended balance when or before its Report is presented, 

 due reason being given for such application.f 



When application is made for a Committee to be re- id) Addi- 

 appointed, and to retain the balance of a former grant, and tio^al Grant. 

 also to receive a further grant, the amount of such further 

 grant is to be estimated as being sufficient, together with 

 the balance proposed to be retained, to make up the amount 

 desired. 



In making grants of money to Research Committees, the (e) Caveat. 

 Association does not contemplate the payment of personal 

 expenses to the Members. 



A Research Committee, whether or not in receipt of a 

 grant, shall not raise money, in the name or under the auspices 

 of the Association, without special permission from the General 

 • Committee. 



7. Members and Committees entrusted with suras of money Disposal of 

 for collecting specimens of any description shall include in their specimens, 



fi nTi3,r3.L us 



Reports particulars thereof, and shall reserve the specimens &c. 

 thus obtained for disposal, as the Council may direct. 



Committees are required to furnish a list of any ap- 

 paratus which may have been purchased out of a grant made 



' Amended by the General Committee at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1916. 

 t Amended by the General Committee at Dundee, 1912. 



