RULES RESPECTING PUBLICATIONS 
OF 
THE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 
Adopted December 22, 1888. 
1. The regular publication of the Society shall have the form 
of a series of completed papers or memoirs, to which the transac¬ 
tions of the Society shall be added. Publication shall not be 
made at stated intervals, but whenever directed by the General 
Committee. 
2. Each paper read before the Society and offered for publica¬ 
tion shall be at once referred to a special committee of two 
appointed by the President, which shall submit to the General 
Committee at its next meeting a written report on the paper, 
and the General Committee shall decide respecting its publica¬ 
tion. The annual address of the retiring President and the an¬ 
nual reports of the Treasurer and Secretaries shall be published 
in full, without reference. The journal of the Society shall be 
published in condensed form at the end of the volume. 
3. Papers read before a Section of the Society and offered for 
publication shall be referred to a committee appointed as the 
Section may direct. The paper, accompanied by a written 
report, shall be laid before the General Committee, which shall 
decide respecting publication. 
4. Papers approved by the General Committee for publication 
shall be printed forthwith, and one hundred copies shall be 
gratuitously furnished to the author. 
5. The papers published from time to time shall be paged con¬ 
secutively, and when sufficient material has accumulated to form 
a volume of convenient size, a title page, table of contents, and 
index shall be prepared, and the whole issued as a volume of 
the Bulletin of the Philosophical Society. 
3—Bull. Phil. Soc., Wash., Vol. 12. 
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