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PROCEEDINGS 
OF 
THE GENERAL COMMITTEE. 
On Monday tlie I8tli of June the General Committee made 
the necessary arrangements for transacting the business of the 
Meeting; appointed a Treasurer; recommended Candidates for 
election; and granted to Foreigners and to certain other indi¬ 
viduals gratuitous tickets of admission to the Meetings. 
On the Saturday following, the Treasurer reported the state 
of the accounts. The General Committee appointed the Trus¬ 
tees in whom the property of the Association was to be vest¬ 
ed ; selected the place of meeting for the ensuing year; chose 
the new Officers of the Association; and nominated a Council 
to transact the business in the intervals between the Meetings. 
The Recommendations of the Committees of Sciences were pre¬ 
sented to the General Committee, and adopted. A Report of 
the Proceedings of the Meeting was ordered to be published. 
Trustees of the Association. 
Charles Babbage, K.H. F.R.S. Lucasian Professor of Mathe¬ 
matics, Cambridge. 
R. I. Murchison, F.R.S. President of the Geological Society. 
John Taylor, F.R.S. Treas. G.S. &c. 
Officers. 
President. —Rev. William Buckland, D.D. Canon of Christ¬ 
church, F.R.S. G.S. &c. Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, 
Oxford. 
President elect. —Rev. Adam Sedgwick, F.R.S. G.S. &c. 
Woodwardian Professor of Geology, Cambridge. 
Vice-Presidents .—Sir David Brewster, K.H. LL.D. F.R.S. 
L. & E. &c. Instit. Reg. Sc. Paris. Corresp. Rev. William 
Whewell, F.R.S. G.S. &c. Secretary to the Cambridge Phi¬ 
losophical Society. 
Vice-Presidents elect .—G. B. Airy, F.R.S. Professor of As- 
