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THE ASSOCIATION contemplates no interference with the ground occupied by other Institutions. Its objects are,―To give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific" inquiry, to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another, and with foreign philosophers,-to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind, which impede its progress.

RULES.

MEMBERS.

All Persons who have attended the first Meeting shall be entitled to become Members of the Association, upon subscribing an obligation to conform to its Rules.

The Fellows and Members of Chartered Literary and Philosophical Societies publishing Transactions, in the British Empire, shall be entitled, in like manner, to become Members of the Association.

The Officers and Members of the Councils, or managing Committees, of Philosophical Institutions shall be entitled, in like manner, to become Members of the Association.

All Members of a Philosophical Institution recommended by its Council or Managing Committee, shall be entitled, in like manner, to become Members of the Association.

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Persons not belonging to such Institutions shall be elected by the General Committee or Council, to become Members of the Association, subject to the approval of a General Meeting.

SUBSCRIPTIONS.

The amount of the Annual Subscription shall be One Pound, to be paid in advance upon admission; and the amount of the composition in lieu thereof, Five Pounds.

Subscriptions shall be received by the Treasurer or Secre

taries.

If the annual subscription of any Member shall have been in arrear for two years, and shall not be paid on proper notice, he shall cease to be a member; but it shall be in the power of the Committee or Council to reinstate him, on payment of arrears.

MEETINGS.

The Association shall meet annually, for one week, or longer. The place of each Meeting shall be appointed by the General Committee at the previous Meeting; and the Arrangements for it shall be entrusted to the Officers of the Association.

GENERAL COMMITTEE.

The General Committee shall sit during the time of the Meeting, or 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 Association, 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.

SECTIONAL COMMITTEES.

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.

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The Committees shall report what subjects of investigation the would particularly recommend to be prosecuted during the ensuing year, and brought under consideration at the next Meeting.

The Committees shall recommend 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.

COMMITTEE OF RECOMMENDATIONS.

The General Committee shall appoint at each Meeting a Committee, which shall receive and consider the Recommendations of the Sectional Committees, and report to the General Committee the measures which they would advise to be adopted for the advancement of science.

LOCAL COMMITTEES.

Local Committees shall be formed by the Officers of the Association to assist in making arrangements for the Meetings.

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 Author of any paper or communication shall be at liberty to reserve his right of property therein.

ACCOUNTS.

The Accounts of the Association shall be audited annually, by Auditors appointed by the Meeting.

OFFICERS AND COUNCIL, 1835-6.

Trustees(permanent).—Charles Babbage, Esq. R. I. Murchison, Esq. John Taylor, Esq.

President. Rev. Bartholomew Lloyd, D.D. Provost of Trinity College, Dublin.

Vice-Presidents.-Viscount Oxmantown, M.P. Rev. William

Whewell.

President elect.-The most Noble the Marquis of Lansdowne. Vice-Presidents elect.-Rev. William Daniel Conybeare. J. S. Harford, Esq. James Cowles Prichard, M.D.

General Secretaries.-Francis Baily, Esq. Rev. William Vernon Harcourt.

Assistant Secretary.-John Phillips, Esq.

Secretaries for Bristol.-G. T. Clark, Esq. Charles Daubeny, M.D. V. F. Hovenden, Esq.

Treasurer.-John Taylor, Esq., 14, Chatham Place, Black

friars.

Treasurer to the Bristol Meeting.-George Bengough, Esq.

Council.-G. B. Airy, Esq., Astronomer Royal, Greenwich. George Bentham, Esq., Westminster. Robert Brown, Esq., London. Rev. W. Buckland, D.D., Oxford. Professor Christie, Woolwich. William Clift, Esq., London. J. E. Drinkwater, Esq., London. G. B. Greenough, Esq., Regent's Park. Dr. Hodgkin, London. J. W. Lubbock, Esq., London. Rev. George Peacock, Cambridge. George Rennie, Esq., London. P. M. Roget, M.D., London. William Yarrell, Esq., London. Secretaries to the Council.-Edward Turner, M.D., London. Rev. James Yates, 49, Upper Bedford Place, London.

Local Treasurers.-Dr. Daubeny, Oxford. Charles Forbes, Esq., Edinburgh. Jonathan Gray, Esq., York. Professor Henslow, Cambridge. William Hutton, Esq., Newcastle-onTyne. Dr. Orpen, Dublin. George Parsons, Esq., Birmingham. Dr. Prichard, Bristol. Rev. John J. Tayler, Manchester. Samuel Turner, Esq., Liverpool, H. Woolcombe, Esq., Plymouth.

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