Extracts from Resolutions of the General Committee.

Committees and individuals, to whom grants of money for scientific purposes 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 remains disposable on each grant.

Grants of pecuniary aid for scientific purposes from the funds of the Association 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.

In each Committee, the Member first named is the person entitled to call on the Treasurer, John Taylor, Esq., 2 Duke Street, Adelphi, 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 continuation 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.

Evening Meetings.

On Wednesday, June 23rd, at 3 P.M., in the Theatre, Oxford, the late President, Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, G.C.St.S., F.R.S., resigned his Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Bart., F.R.S., M.P. for the University of Oxford, who took the Chair at the General Meeting, and delivered an Address, for which see p. xxix.

On Thursday, June 24th, at 8 P.M., in the Radcliffe Library, the Rev. Baden Powell, F.R.S., Savilian Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford, delivered a Discourse on Shooting Stars.

On Friday, June 25th, at 8 P.M., in the same room, Michael Faraday,

LL.D., F.R.S., Fullerian Professor in the Royal Institution, delivered a Discourse on Magnetic and Diamagnetic Phænomena.

On Monday, June 28th, at 8 P.M., in the same room, Hugh Edwin Strickland, Esq., M.A., F.G.S., delivered a Discourse on the Dodo (Didus ineptus), of which extinct Species of Bird certain portions are preserved in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford.

On Tuesday, June 29th, at 8 P.M., in the same room, a Microscopic Soirée was held, when objects selected for displaying the recent progress of microscopical research were submitted to the examination of the Members of the Association by M. Ehrenberg, Dr. Addison, Mr. J. S. Bowerbank, Dr. Carpenter, Mr. J. Darker, Mr. Hayley, Dr. Hooker and Professor Hyrtt. Preparations by Professor Rymer Jones, Mr. H. Lawson, Dr. Leeson, Mr. M.S. Legg, Mr. J. Peach, Mr. Andrew Ross, Mr. James Smith, Mr. Stowe, Mr. F. Symonds, Mr. G. H. K. Thwaites, Mr. C. M. Topping, Mr. N. B. Ward and Mr. C. Woodward.

On Wednesday, June 30, at 3 P.M., in the Theatre, the concluding General Meeting of the Association was held, when the Proceedings of the General Committee, and the grants of money for scientific purposes were explained to the Members.

The Meeting was then adjourned to Swansea, on Wednesday, the 9th of August, 1848.