they are elected; but the President, Vice-Presidents, and Local Officers, not until the Annual Meeting next following.

17. All Members of the Council must be Members of the Association.

18. The Council shall have power to fill any Official vacancy which may occur in the intervals of the Annual Meetings.

19. The Annual Contributions shall be payable in advance, and shall be due in each year on the day of the Annual Meeting.

20. The Treasurer shall receive all sums of money due to the Association; he shall pay all accounts due by the Association after they shall have been examined and approved; and he shall report to each Meeting of the Council the balance he has in hand, and the names of such members as shall be in arrear, with the sums due respectively by each.

21. Whenever a Member shall have been three months in arrear in the payment of his Annual Contributions, the Treasurer shall apply to him for the same.

22. Whenever, at an Annual Meeting, a Member shall be two years in arrear in the payment of his Annual Contributions, the Council may, at its discretion, erase his name from the list of Members.

23. The General Secretaries shall, at least one month before each Annual Meeting, inform each Member by circular of the place and date of the Meeting.

24. Members who do not, on or before the day of the Annual Meeting, give notice, in writing or personally, to one of the General Secretaries of their intention to withdraw from the Association, shall be regarded as members for the ensuing year.

25. The Association shall, within three months after each Annual Meeting, publish its Transactions, including the Rules,

a Financial Statement, a List of the Members, the Report of the Council, the President's Address, and such papers, in abstract or in extenso, read at the Annual Meeting, as shall be decided by the Council.

26. The Association shall have the right at its discretion of printing in extenso in its Transactions all papers read at the Annual Meeting; but the copyright of a paper read before any Meeting of the Association, and the Illustrations of the same which have been provided at his expense, shall remain the property of the Author.

27. The Authors of papers printed in the Transactions shall, within seven days after the Transactions are published, receive twenty-five private copies free of expense, and shall be allowed to have any further number printed at their own expense. All arrangements as to such extra copies to be made by the Authors with the printer of the Association.

28. If proofs of papers to be published in the Transactions be sent to Authors for correction, and are retained by them beyond four days for each sheet of proof, to be reckoned from the day marked thereon by the printer, but not including the time needful for transmission by post, such proofs shall be assumed to require no further correction.

29. Should the Author's corrections of the press in any paper published in the Transactions amount to a greater sum than in the proportion of twenty shillings per sheet, such excess shall be borne by the Author himself, and not by the Association.

30. Every Member shall, within three months after each Annual Meeting, receive gratuitously a copy of the Transactions.

31. The Accounts of the Association shall be audited annually, by Auditors appointed at each Annual Meeting, but who shall not be ex officio Members of the Council.

BYE-LAWS AND STANDING ORDERS.

1. In the interests of the Association it is desirable that the President's Address in each year be printed previous to its delivery.

2. In the event of there being at an Annual Meeting more Papers than can be disposed of in one day, the reading of the residue shall be continued the day following.

3. The pagination of the Transactions shall be in Arabic numerals exclusively, and carried on consecutively, from the beginning to the end of each volume; and each volume shall hereafter terminate with that 'Part' which contains the 500th page.

4. The Honorary Secretary shall bring to each Annual Meeting of the Members a report of the number of copies in stock of each 'Part' of the Transactions, with the price per copy of each 'Part' specified; and such report shall be printed in the Transactions next after the Treasurer's financial statement.

5. The Honorary Secretary shall prepare and bring to each Annual Meeting brief Obituary Notices of Members deceased during the previous year, and such notices shall be printed in the Transactions.

6. An amount not less than the sum of the Compositions of all existing Life-Members shall be kept at Interest in the names of the Treasurer and General Secretary.

7. The Secretary shall, within one month of the close of each Annual Meeting of the Association, send to each Member newly elected at the said Meeting a copy of the following letter:

Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science,
Literature, and Art.

SIR,-I have the pleasure of informing you that on the
July,

nomination of

of

you were elected a Member of the Association on the

The Copy of the Transactions for the current year, which will be forwarded to you in due course, will contain the Laws of the Association. Meanwhile I beg to call your attention to the following statements:

(1) Every Member pays an Annual Contribution of Ten Shillings, or a Life Composition of Five Pounds.

(2) The Annual Contributions are payable in advance, and are due in each year on the day of the Annual Meeting.

(3) Members who do not, on or before the day of the Annual Meeting, give notice in writing or personally to the General Secretary of their intention to withdraw from the Association are regarded as Members for the ensuing year

The Treasurer's address is-EDWARD VIVIAN, Esq., Woodfield, Torquay. I remain, Sir, your faithful Servant,

Hon. Sec.

8. The reading of any Paper shall not exceed twenty minutes, and in any discussion which may arise no speaker shall be allowed to speak more than ten minutes.

9. Papers to be read to the Annual Meetings of the Association must be handed, together with all Drawings to be used in illustrating, to the General Secretary at or before the first Meeting of the Council on the first day of the Annual Meeting; and all Rules and Standing Orders connected with Papers read to the Association shall be printed in the Annual Circular.

10. Papers communicated by Members for Non-members, and accepted by the Council, shall be placed in the Programme below those furnished by Members themselves.

11. Papers which have been accepted by the Council cannot be withdrawn without the consent of the Council.

12. The Council will do their best so to arrange Papers for reading as to suit the convenience of the authors; but

the place of a Paper cannot be altered after the Programme has been settled by the Council.

13. Papers which have already been printed in extenso cannot be accepted unless they form part of the Literature of a question on which the Council has requested a Member or Committee to prepare a report.

14. Every meeting of the Council shall be convened by Circulars, sent by the General Secretary to each Member of the Council, not less than ten days before the Meeting is held.

15. All papers read to the Association which the Council shall decide to print in extenso in the Transactions, shall be sent to the printer, together with all drawings required in illustrating them, on the day next following the close of the Annual Meeting at which they were read.

16. All Papers read to the Association, which the Council shall decide not to print in extenso in the Transactions, shall be returned to the authors not later than the day next following the close of the Annual Meeting at which they were read; and abstracts of such Papers to be printed in the Transactions shall not exceed one-fourth of the length of the Paper itself, and must be sent to the General Secretary on or before the seventh day after the close of the Annual Meeting.

17. The printer shall do his utmost to print the Papers in the Transactions in the order in which they were read, and shall return every Manuscript intact to the author as soon as it is in type, but not before.

18. Excepting mere verbal alterations, no Paper which has been read to the Association shall be added to, without the written approval and consent of the General Secretary; and no additions shall be made except in the form of notes or postcripts, or both.

19. In the intervals of the Annual Meetings all Meetings of the Council shall be held at Exeter, unless some other place shall have been decided on at the previous Council Meeting.

20. The Bye-Laws and Standing Orders shall be printed after the "Rules" in the Transactions.