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7. If any payment of travelling expenses be contemplated out of a 

 grant to a Research Committee, tlie amount to be so allocated shall be 

 stated in the application for such grant, and such payment shall be 

 expressly recommended by the Committee of Recommendations and 

 approved by the General Committee (or in the event of subsequent 

 emergency, by the Council), and shall be confined to railway or other fares. 



8. Members and Committees entrusted with sums of money for 

 collecting specimens of any description shall include in their Reports 

 particulars thereof, and shall reserve the specimens thus obtained for 

 disposal, as the Council may direct. 



Committees are required to furnish a list of any apparatus which may 

 have been purchased out of a grant made by the Association, and to state 

 whether the apparatus is likely to be useful for continuing the research in 

 question or for other specific purposes. 



All instruments, drawings, papers, and other property of the Associa- 

 tion, when not in actual use by a Committee, shall be deposited at the 

 Office of the Association. 



Nomination of President of the Association by Council. 



9. 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. 



Assistant to the General Treasurer. 



10. The General Treasurer may depute the Secretary or other salaried 

 ofiicer to carry on under his direction the routine work of the duties of 

 liis ofiice. Such officer shall be charged with the issue of membership 

 tickets and such other work as may be delegated to him. 



Travelling Expenses, etc. 



11. The General Treasurer shall be authorised, subject to approval, 

 and within limitations defined, by the Council, to defray travelling and 

 other expenses of officers as follows : — 



(i) Railway fares and postages incurred by the President and 

 General Officers in connection with the Annual Meeting, the 

 meetings of the Council, and other meetings involved by the 

 discharge of their official duties. 



(ii) Railway fares and subsistence expenses incurred by members of 

 the Staff in connection with attendance at the Annual Meeting 

 and otherwise in the discharge of their duties. 



(iii) Railway fares incurred by Recorders and Secretaries of Sections 

 in connection with the Annual Meeting, and with the preceding 

 joint meeting of the Organising Sectional Committees. 



