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PROCEEDINGS 
OF 
THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. 
The General Committee was employed from the 27th of Sep¬ 
tember to the 2nd of October in revising the Rules of the As¬ 
sociation, in appointing the Office-bearers, in embodying the 
Local and Sub-Committees, and in receiving the recommenda¬ 
tions of the latter, and making arrangements for carrying their 
suggestions into effect. 
The care of completing the objects which the Committee had 
in view, and of printing the results of its deliberations, together 
with the proceedings and transactions of the General Meeting, 
was entrusted to the Officers of the Association at York, who 
have drawn up from its minutes a summary of the Objects and 
Rules of the Association*; to which are subjoined the appoint¬ 
ments of Officers and Committees. The particulars of the 
scientific business brought before the General Committee are 
included in the account of the Recommendations of the Sub- 
Committees ; and the success which has attended the applica¬ 
tions, made in the name of the Association, to eminent indivi¬ 
duals, requesting them to undertake the services in science 
which had been so recommended, has been stated in the 
Preface to the Report. 
Officers. 
President. —Charles William, Viscount Milton, F.R.S. &c. 
President of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. 
President elect. —Rev. William Buckland, D.D., F.R.S. &c. 
Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, Oxford. 
Vice-President. —Rev. William Vernon Harcourt, F.R.S. 
&c. Vice-President of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. 
Vice-Presidents elect. —David Brewster, LL.D., F.R.S. 
* This summary, with the additional regulations since made, is printed in 
the present volume at the end of the Second Report. 
