xlviii REPORT—1858. 
Extracts from Resolutions 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 Strect 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. 22, at 85 p.M., in the Town Hall, The Rev. Humphrey 
Lloyd, D.D., D.C.L., F.R.S. L. & E., V.P.R.L.A., resigned the office of Presi- 
dent to Richard Owen, M.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., Corr. Memb. Inst. of France, 
who took the Chair and delivered an Address, for which see page xlix. 
Mee Thursday Evening, Sept. 23, a Conversazione took place in the Town 
Hall. 
On Friday Evening, Sept. 24, at 83 p.m., in the Town Hall, John Phillips, 
M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., Pres. Geol. Soc. of London, delivered a Discourse on 
the Ironstones of Yorkshire. 
On Monday Evening, Sept. 27, at 84 p.m., The President of the Meeting, 
Professor Owen, delivered a Discourse on the Fossil Mammalia of Australia. 
On Tuesday Evening, Sept. 28, at 84 p.m., a Conversazione took place in 
the Town Hall. 
On Wednesday, Sept. 29, at 3 p.m., the concluding General Meeting took 
place in the Town 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 Aberdeen*. 
* The Meeting is appointed to take place on Wednesday, the 14th of September, 1859. - 
