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. Presidents of the Association in former years are ex officio members of the Committee of Recommendations.1 All Recommendations of Grants of Money, Requests for Special Researches, and Reports on Scientific Subjects shall be submitted to the Committee of Recommendations, and not taken into consideration by the General Committee unless previously recommended by the Committee of Recommendations. All proposals for establishing new Sections, or altering the titles of Sections, or for any other change in the constitutional forms and fundamental rules of the Association, shall be referred to the Committee of Recommendations for a report.2 If the President of a Section is unable to attend a meeting of the Committee of Recommendations, the Sectional Committee shall be authorised to appoint a Vice-President, or, failing a Vice-President, some other member of the Committee, to attend in his place, due notice of the appointment being sent to the Assistant General Secretary.3 Corresponding Societies. 1. Any Society is eligible to be placed on the List of Corresponding Societies of the Association which undertakes local scientific investigations, and publishes notices of the results. 2. Application may be made by any Society to be placed on the List of Corresponding Societies. Applications must be addressed to the Secretary on or before the 1st of June preceding the Annual Meeting at which it is intended they should be considered, and must be accompanied by specimens of the publications of the results of the local scientific investigations recently undertaken by the Society. 3. A Corresponding Societies Committee shall be annually nominated by the Council and appointed by the General Committee for the purpose of considering these applications, as well as for that of keeping themselves generally informed of the annual work of the Corresponding Societies, and of superintending the preparation of a list of the papers published by them. This Committee shall make an annual report to the General Committee, and shall suggest such additions or changes in the List of Corresponding Societies as they may think desirable. 4. Every Corresponding Society shall return each year, on or before the 1st of June, to the Assistant General Secretary of the Association, a schedule, properly filled up, which will be issued by him, and which will contain a request for such particulars with regard to the Society as may be required for the information of the Corresponding Societies Committee. 5. There shall be inserted in the Annual Report of the Association 1 Passed by the General Committee at Newcastle, 1863. 2 Passed by the General Committee at Birmingham, 1865. a list, in an abbreviated form, of the papers published by the Corresponding Societies during the past twelve months which contain the results of the local scientific work conducted by them; those papers only being included which refer to subjects coming under the cognisance of one or other of the various Sections of the Association. 6. A Corresponding Society shall have the right to nominate any ore of its members, who is also a Member of the Association, as its delegate to the Annual Meeting of the Association, who shall be for the time a Member of the General Committee. Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies. 7. The Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies is empowered to send recommendations to the Committee of Recommendations for their consideration, and for report to the General Committee. 8. The Delegates of the various Corresponding Societies shall constitute a Conference, of which the Chairman, Vice-Chairmen, and Secretaries shall be annually nominated by the Council, and appointed by the General Committee, and of which the members of the Corresponding Societies Committee shall be ex officio members. 9. The Conference of Delegates shall be summoned by the Secretaries to hold one or more meetings during each Annual Meeting of the Association, and shall be empowered to invite any Member or Associate to take part in the meetings. 10. The Secretaries of each Section shall be instructed to transmit to the Secretaries of the Conference of Delegates copies of any recommendations forwarded by the Presidents of Sections to the Committee of Recommendations bearing upon matters in which the co-operation of Corresponding Societies is desired; and the Secretaries of the Conference of Delegates shall invite the authors of these recommendations to attend the meetings of the Conference and give verbal explanations of their objects and of the precise way in which they would desire to have them carried into effect. 11. It will be the duty of the Delegates to make themselves familiar with the purport of the several recommendations brought before the Conference, in order that they and others who take part in the meetings may be able to bring those recommendations clearly and favourably before their respective Societies. The Conference may also discuss propositions bearing on the promotion of more systematic observation and plans of operation, and of greater uniformity in the mode of publishing results. Local Committees. Local Committees shall be formed by the Officers of the Association to assist in making arrangements for the Meetings. Local Committees shall have the power of adding to their numbers those Members of the Association whose assistance they may desire. Officers. A President, two or more Vice-Presidents, one 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. The Council may also assemble for the despatch of business during the week of the Meeting. (1) The Council shall consist of1 1. The Trustees. 2. The past Presidents. 3. The President and Vice-Presidents for the time being. 4. The President and Vice-Presidents elect. 5. The past and present General Treasurers, General and Assistant General Secretaries. 6. The Local Treasurer and Secretaries for the ensuing Meeting. 7. Ordinary Members. (2) The Ordinary Members shall be elected annually from the General Committee. (3) There shall be not more than twenty-five Ordinary Members, of whom not more than twenty shall have served on the Council, as Ordinary Members, in the previous year. (4) In order to carry out the foregoing rule, the following Ordinary Members of the outgoing Council shall at each annual election be ineligible for nomination:-1st, those who have served on the Council for the greatest number of consecutive years; and, 2nd, those who, being resident in or near London, have attended the fewest number of Meetings during the year -observing (as nearly as possible) the proportion of three by seniority to two by least attendance. (5) The Council shall submit to the General Committee in their Annual Report the names of the Members of the General Committee whom they recommend for election as Members of Council. (6) The Election shall take place at the same time as that of the Officers of the Association. 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 General Committee. Passed by the General Committee at Belfast, 1874. Table showing the Places and Times of Meeting of the British Association, with Presidents, Vice-Presidents, and Local Secretaries, from its Commencement. YORK, September 27, 1831. } The REV. W. BUCKLAND, D.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., &c. (Sir David Brewster, F.R.S. L. & E., &c. OXFORD, June 19, 1832. 1 Rev. W. Whewell, F.R.S., Pres. Geol. Soc....... The REV. ADAM SEDGWICK, M.A., V.P.R.S., V.P.G.S. (G. B. Airy, Esq., F.R.S., Astronomer Royal, &c... John Dalton, Esq., D.C.L., F.R.S. SIR T. MACDOUGALL BRISBANE, K.C.B., D.C.L., Sir David Brewster, F.R.S., &c........ F.R.S. L. & E..... The REV. PROVOST LLOYD, LL.D. EDINBURGH, September 8, 1834. DUBLIN, August 10, 1835. BRISTOL, August 22, 1836. The MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE, D.C.L., F.R.S. Rev. T. R. Robinson, D.D. .... Viscount Oxmantown, F.R.S., F.R.A.S.. J. C. Prichard, Esq., M.D., F.R.S. ) The DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, F.R.S., F.G.S., &c. The Rev. W. Vernon Harcourt, F.R.S., &c. ...... The Bishop of Durham, F.R.S., F.S.A. The Earl of Dartmouth.. Sir David Brewster, F.R.S. The REV. W. VERNON HARCOURT, M.A., F.R.S., &c. The Rev. T. R. Robinson, D.D. The MARQUIS OF BREADALBANE, F.R.S. GLASGOW, September 17, 1840. The REV. PROFESSOR WHEWELL, F.R.S., &c. The Very Rev. Principal Macfarlane Sir T. M. Brisbane, Bart., F.R.S. The Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe LOCAL SECRETARIES, William Gray, jun., Esq., F.G.S. Professor Danbeny, M.D., F.R.S., &c. Rev. Professor Henslow, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S. Professor Forbes, F.R.S. L. & E., &c. Sir W. R. Hamilton, Astron. Royal of Ireland, &c. Professor Daubeny, M.D., F.R.S., &c. Professor Traill, M.D. Wm. Wallace Currie, Esq. John Adamson, Esq., F.L.S., &c. Professor Johnston, M.A., F.R.S. George Barker, Esq., F.R.S. Joseph Hodgson, Esq., F.R.S. Follett Osler, Esq. W. Snow Harris, Esq., F.R.S. Robert Were Fox, Esq. Richard Taylor, jun., Esc. W. Fleming, Esq., M.D. James Heywood, Esq., F.R.S. Professor John Stevelly, M.A. William Keleher, Esq. Wm. Clear, Esq. William Hatfeild, Esq., F.G.S. The Hon. John Stuart Wortley, M.P. Sir David Brewster, K.H., F.R.S. Thomas Meynell, Esq., F.L.S. Michael Faraday, Esq., D.C.L., F.R.S.. Rev. W. V. Harcourt, F.R.S. Rev. W. Scoresby, LL.D., F.R.S. William West, Esq. PRESIDENTS. SIR JOHN F. W. HERSCHEL, Bart., F.R.S., &c. CAMBRIDGE, June 19, 1845. The Earl of Hardwicke. Rev. J. Graham, D.D. VICE-PRESIDENTS. The Bishop of Norwich Rev. G. Ainslie, D.D. .......... G. B. Airy, Esq., M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S. The Marquis of Winchester. The Earl of Yarborough, D.C.L.. SIR RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON, G.C.St.S., F.R.S. Right Hon. Charles Shaw Lefevre, M.P. Sir George T. Staunton, Bart., M.P., D.C.L., F.R.S.............. SIR ROBERT HARRY INGLIS, Bart., D.C.L., F.R.S., The Vice-Chancellor of the University OXFORD, June 23, 1847. The MARQUIS OF NORTHAMPTON, President of the Sir H. T. De la Beche, F.R.S., Pres. G.S......... Royal Society, &c. SWANSEA, August 9, 1848. The Very Rev. the Dean of Llandaff, F.R.S...... Professor Faraday, D.C.L., F.R.S.. ... Sir David Brewster, K.H., LL.D., F.R.S. Rev. Prof. Willis, M.A., F.R.S., The Earl of Rosebery, K.T., D.C.L., F.R.S. The Right Hon. David Boyle (Lord Justice-General), F.R.S.E. The Lord Bishop of Norwich. GEORGE BIDDELL AIRY, Esq., D.C.L., F.R.S., Astro- Rev. Professor Sedgwick, M.A., F.R.S. IPSWICH, July 2, 1851 Rev. Professor Henslow, M.A.. F.L.S.. Charles May, Esq., F.R.A.S. COLONEL EDWARD SABINE, Royal Artillery, Treas. & Sir Henry T. De la Beche, F.R.S...... V.P. of the Royal Society. BELFAST, September 1, 1852. Rev. Edward Hincks, D.D., M.R.I.A. Professor Stevelly, LL.D.. W. J. C. Allen, Esq. |