498 RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. 



The place of each Meeting shall be appointed by the General 

 Committee at the previous Meeting ; and the Arrangements for 

 it shall be entrusted to the Officers of the Association. 



GENERAL COMMITTEE. 



The General Committee shall sit during the time of the Meet- 

 ing, or longer, to transact the Business of the Association. It 

 shall consist of all Members present, who have communicated 

 any scientific Paper to a Philosophical Society, which Paper has 

 been printed in its Transactions, or with its concurrence. 



Members of Philosophical Institutions, being Members of 

 this Association, ^vho may be sent as Deputies to any Meeting 

 of the Association, shall be Members of the General Committee 

 for that Meeting. 



COMMITTEES OF SCIENCES. 



The Genera! Committee shall appoint, at each Meeting, Com- 

 mittees, consisting severally of the Members most conversant 

 with the several branches of Science, to advise together for the 

 advancement thereof. 



The Committees shall report what subjects of investigation 

 they would particularly recommend to be prosecuted during the 

 ensuing year, and brought under consideration at the next Meet- 

 ing. They shall engage their own Members, or others, to un- 

 dertake such investigations ; and where the object admits of 

 being assisted by the exertions of scientific bodies, they shall 

 state the particulars in which it might be desirable for the Ge- 

 neral Committee to solicit the cooperation of such bodies. 



The Committees shall procure Reports on the state and pro- 

 gress of particular Sciences, to be drawn up from time to time by 

 competent persons, for the information of the Annual Meetings. 



LOCAL COMMITTEES. 



Local Committees shall be appointed, where necessary, by the 

 General Committee, or by the Officers of the Association, to 

 assist in promoting its objects. 



Committees shall have the power of adding to their numbers 

 those Members of the Association whose assistance they may 

 desire. 



OFFICERS. 



A President, two Vice-Presidents, two or more Secretaries, 

 and a Treasurer, shall be annually appointed by the General 

 Committee. . 



