Rules Relating to Publication. sul 
RULES RELATING TO PUBLICATION. 
ADOPTED BY THE Boarp or Manacers FrsRuARY 6, 1891. 
Form of Publication. 
Suction 1. The National Geographic Society will continue to 
publish a serial entitled The National Geographic Magazine. 
Src. 2. This serial shall be published in covered parts or bro- 
chures, consecutively paged for each volume. The brochures 
shall be designated by volume numbers and limiting pages ; and 
each shall bear a special title setting forth the contents and 
authorship, as well as the title of the serial and the seal and im- 
print of the Society, and, in addition, the precise date of publica- 
tion. 
Sec. 3. A brochure may consist of a smgle memoir or article, 
in which case twenty-five copies will be furnished to the author 
without charge, and the author may order or authorize the order 
of any additional number of copies; and the shorter papers, 
abstracts, reviews, notes and miscellaneous matter may be col- 
lected and issued as brochures uniform with those containing the 
memoirs. 
Sec. 4. The brochures of the serial shall be arranged for 
gathering into volumes, each comprising the issue of a calendar 
year ; and about the close of each year there shall be published 
in a brochure arranged to complete the volume a title-page, a list 
of contents, and an index for the corresponding volume, together 
with an abstract of the proceedings of the Society and lists of 
officers and members for the year, and a copy of the by-laws and 
rules governing the Society. 
Matter of Publication. 
Src. 5. The matter published in the National Geographic 
Magazine, may comprise: (1) original communications prepared 
by members or guests of the National Geographic Society pre- 
sented at meetings by title’ or otherwise ; (2) original communica- 
tions or memoirs prepared for the Magazine either by members 
or non-members, whether presented before the Society or not ; 
(3) translations or abstracts of important foreign publications 
