GENERAL MEETINGS. lvii 



Extracts from Eesolutiojis of the General Committee. 



Committees and individuals, to whom grants of money for scientific pur- 

 poses have been entrusted, are required to present to each following meeting 

 of the Association a Report of the progress which has been made ; with a 

 statement of the sums which have been expended, and the balance which re- 

 mains disposable on each grant. 



Grants of pecuniary aid for scientific purposes from the funds of the Asso- 

 ciation expire at the ensuing meeting, unless it shall appear by a Report that 

 the Recommendations have been acted on, or a continuation of them be 

 ordered by the General Committee. 



In each Committee, the Member first named is the person entitled to call 

 on the Treasurer, John Taylor, Esq., 6 Queen Street Place, Upper Thames 

 Street, London, for such portion of the sum granted as may from time to 

 time be required. 



In grants of money to Committees, the Association does not contemplate 

 the payment of personal expenses to the Members. 



In all cases where additional grants of money are made for the continua- 

 tion of Researches at the cost of the Association, the sum named shall be 

 deemed to include, as a part of the amount, the specified balance which may 

 remain unpaid on the former grant for the same object. 



General Meetings. 



On Wednesday, Sept. 14, at 8^ p.m., in the Music Hall, Richard Owen, 

 M.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., Corr. Memb. Inst, of France, resigned the office of 

 President to His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, who took the Chair 

 and delivered an Address, for which see page lix. 



On Thursday Evening, Sept. 15, a Conversazione took place in the Music 

 Hall. 



On Friday Evening, Sept. 16, at 8| p.m., in the Music Hall, Sir R. I. 

 Murchison, G.C.St.S., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.G.S., V.P.R.G.S., delivered a Dis- 

 course on the Geology of the Northern Highlands. 



On Monday Evening, Sept. 19, at 85 p.m., The Rev. T. Robinson, D.D., 

 F.R.S., M.R.I.A., delivered a Discourse on Electrical Discharges in highly 

 Rarefied Media. 



On Tuesday Evening, Sept. '20, at 8\ p.m., a Conversazione took place in 

 the Music Hall. 



On Wednesday, Sept. 21, at 3 p.m., the concluding General Meeting took 

 place in the Music Hall, when the Proceedings of the General Committee, 

 and the Grants of Money for Scientific purposes, were explained to the 

 Members. 



The Meeting was then adjourned to Oxford*. 

 * The Meeting is appointed to take place on Wednesday, the 27th of June, 1860. 



