STANDING RULES 
OF THE 
MATHEMATICAL SECTION. 
1. The object of this Section is the consideration and discus¬ 
sion of papers relating to pure or applied mathematics. 
2. The special officers of the Section shall be a Chairman and 
a Secretary, who shall be elected at the first meeting of the Sec¬ 
tion in each year, and discharge the duties usually attaching to 
those offices. 
3. To bring a paper regularly before the Section it must be 
submitted to the Standing Committee on Communications for 
the stated meetings of the Society, with the statement that it is 
for the Mathematical Section. 
4. Meetings shall be called by the Standing Committee on 
Communications whenever the extent or importance of the 
papers submitted and approved appear to justify it. 
5. All members of the Philosophical Society who wish to do 
so may take part in the meetings of this Section. 
6. To every member who shall have notified the Secretary of 
the General Committee of his desire to receive them, announce¬ 
ments of the meetings of the Section shall be sent by mail. 
7. The Section shall have power to adopt such rules of pro¬ 
cedure as it may find expedient. 
(xiv) 
