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RULES OF THE ASSOCIATION. 
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 Associ¬ 
ation, who may be sent as Deputies to any Meeting of the Association, 
shall be Members of the Committee for that Meeting, the number 
being limited to two from each Institution. 
COMMITTEES OF SCIENCE. 
The General Committee shall appoint, at each Meeting, Committees, 
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 Meeting. They shall engage 
their own Members, or others, to undertake 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 General Committee to solicit the co-operation of such bodies. 
The Committees shall procure Reports on the state and progress 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. 
COUNCIL. 
In the intervals of the Meetings the affairs of the Association shall 
be managed by a Council, appointed by the General Committee. 
PAPERS AND COMMUNICATIONS. 
The General Committee shall appoint at each Meeting a Sub-Com¬ 
mittee, to examine the papers which have been read, and the register of 
communications ; to report what ought to be published, and to recom¬ 
mend the manner of publication. The Author of any paper or commu¬ 
nication shall be at liberty to reserve his right of property therein. 
ACCOUNTS. 
The Accounts of the Association shall be audited annually, by Audi¬ 
tors appointed by the Meeting. 
