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GENERAL MEETINGS. 
Extracts from Resolutions of the General Committee. 
Committees and individuals, to whom grants of money for scientific par- 
poses have been entrusted, are required to present to each following meeting 
of the Association a Report of the progress which has been made; with a 
statement of the sums which have been expended, and the balance which re¬ 
mains disposable on each grant. 
Grants of pecuniary aid for scientific purposes from the funds of the Asso¬ 
ciation expire at the ensuing meeting, unless it shall appear by a Report that 
the Recommendations have been acted on, or a continuation of them be 
ordered by the General Committee. 
Tn each Committee, the Member first named is the pprson entitled to call 
on the Treasurer, .John Taylor, Eso., 6 Queen Street Place, Upper Thames 
Street, London, for such portion of the sum granted as may from time to 
time be required. 
In grants of money to Committees, the Association does not contemplate 
the payment of personal expenses to the Members. 
In all cases where additional grants of money are made for the continua¬ 
tion of Researches at the cost of the Association, the sum named shall be 
deemed to include, as a part of the amount, the specified balance which may 
remain unpaid on the former grant for the same object. 
general Meetings. 
1W-- ® e P fc * 20th ’ at 8 in the Philharmonic Hall, Willi*" 
P-ivi nf h 8f ^'’ h-R.S., P.G.S., resigned the office of President to th 
rlf'iii-oiJi arro ' v ! , J r ’ h-U-S., who took the Chair at the General Meeting, am 
delivered an Address, for which see page lv. 
P yW„l h ,r l!l) '' Sept, ^st, U Soiree took place in St. George’s Ilall, whe; 
Polytmpe ex, “ bltcd with Jluhmkorft-s Induction CoilJ and Magnus 
Ifyn 0 S r.M., in the Concert Room of St. George; 
siedogy inSo J Svnl , r , H IXf KRS > Professor of Anatomy and Pby 
on AmhropomorphmS A^.° f &Urge ° U3 ol ‘ K,, S laud » delivered a Discourse 
Hall, ColonehFd*ward ^V-’ at f, * n l * le Concert Room of St. George; 
course on £ Pro^tf T’ Y* l V U,d 'W R.S., delivered a Dis 
Or. Tuesda • 7 « IeS€arcl,es “* Terrestrial Magnetism. 
Experiments with [hr* R took pluce in St. George’s Hall, when 
Experiments with the T°- ,e « ",' ?re Presented by M. Leon Foucault; 
Were explained bv Prnf 1C Abb6 Moigno and M. Duboscq 
"onWe^dl ° f t,,C MOO " Wer£ 
the Association was jiel.T ‘ < L P,M '> the concluding General Meeting oi 
eeedings of the GeneralC«,m.„L Geors f 8 IIal, ‘ Liverpool, when the Pro- 
P-..po ae Vo™ eM^bl' 1 ' 16 un *““ fcr •*** 
Meeting was t he n adjourned to' Glasgow 
- Meumg „ •ppotaod to „ kc m Wtina H r , (hc 12l]i Ser(siubcri 1SM _ 
