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15. The Council will do its 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 List has been settled by the Council.

16. 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.

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

18. At the close of the Annual Meeting in every year there shall be a meeting of the Council, and the Council shall then decide what Reports and how many of the Papers accepted for reading the funds of the Association, as reported by the Treasurer, will permit of being printed in the volume of Transactions.

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

20. 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 such length as the General Secretary shall suggest in each case, and must be sent to him on or before the seventh day after the close of the Annual Meeting.

21. The Author of every Paper which the Council at any Annual Meeting shall decide to print in the Transactions shall be expected to pay for the preparation of all such illustrations as in his judgment and that of the Council the said Paper may require. That is to say, he shall pay for the preparation of all necessary drawings, blocks, lithographic transfers or drawings on stone; but the Association will bear the cost of printing (by the Association's printers), paper and binding; provided that should any such illustrations be in colours or of a size larger than can be inserted in the volume with a single fold, or be desired to be executed in any other process than printing from the block or lithography, then in each and either of these cases the author shall himself bear the whole cost of production and printing, and should the Council so decide shall also pay any additional charge that may properly be made for binding.

22. The printers shall do their utmost to print the Papers in the Transactions in the order in which they were read, and shall return

every Manuscript to the author as soon as it is in type, but not before. They shall be returned intact, provided they are written on loose sheets and on one side of the paper only.

23. 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, or in the event of there being two Secretaries of the one acting as Editor; and no additions shall be made except in the form of notes or postscripts, or both.

24. 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.

25. When the number of copies on hand of any Part of the Transactions is reduced to twenty, the price per copy shall be increased 25 per cent. ; and when the number has been reduced to ten copies, the price shall be increased 50 per cent. on the original price.

26. After deducting the amount received by the sale of Transactions from last year's valuation, and adding the value of Transactions for the current year, a deduction of 10 per cent. shall be every year made from the balance, and this balance, less 10 per cent., shall be returned as the estimated value of the Transactions in stock for the current year.

27. The Association's Printers, but no other person, may reprint any Committee's Report printed in the Transactions of the Association, for any person, whether a Member of the said Committee, or of the Association, or neither, on receiving, in each case, a written permission to do so from the Honorary Secretary of the Association, but not otherwise; that the said printers shall pay to the said Secretary, for the Association, sixpence for every fifty Copies of each half-sheet of eight pages of which the said Report consists; that any number of copies less than fifty, or between two exact multiples of fifty, shall be regarded as fifty; and any number of pages less than eight, or between two exact multiples of eight, shall be regarded as eight; that each copy of such Reprints shall have on its first page the words " Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art for with the consent of the Council of the Association," followed by the date of the year in which the said Report was printed in the said Transactions, but that, with the exception of printer's errors and changes in the pagination which may be necessary or desirable, the said Reprint shall be in every other respect an exact copy of the said Report as printed in the said Transactions without addition, or abridgment, or modification of any kind.

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

29. All resolutions appointing Committees for special service for the Association shall be printed in the Transactions next before the President's Address.

30. Members and Ladies holding Ladies' Tickets intending to dine at the Association Dinner shall be requested to send their names to the Honorary Local Secretary; no other person shall be admitted to the dinner, and no names shall be received after the Monday next before the dinner.

REPORT OF THE COUNCIL.

Presented to the General Meeting held at Launceston, 27th July, 1909.

OWING to the death of Mr. J. Brooking-Rowe on 28 June, 1908, the office of General Secretary fell vacant, and Mr. Robert Burnard, F.S.A., having intimated his willingness to undertake the duties, was duly elected to the vacant office at the adjourned meeting of the Council held at Newton Abbot, on 30 July, 1908. The Association is to be congratulated on having the services of so able an officer. At the same meeting a new Committee for the purpose of investigating the Flora and Botany of Devonshire was formed.

The Winter Meeting of the Council was held in Exeter on 28 January, 1909, at which the usual routine business was transacted, and, in addition, a proposed amendment to Rule 27 was approved, enabling Honorary Secretaries of Committees for special service for the Association to obtain, should they require them, forty copies free of expense of all Reports of their Committees printed in the Transactions, instead of twenty-five as heretofore. Also Bye-Law 21 was repealed and a new bye-law passed, whereby the Association now defrays the cost of printing, paper, and binding the illustrations published in the Transactions (except in special cases detailed in the byelaw), the author providing the block only for the illustrations required for his paper. The Report of the Place of Meeting Committee was also presented at this meeting, in which the secretary of that committee reported that a cordial invitation had been received from Cullompton for the Association to hold its Annual Meeting in 1910 in that town. The Association has never visited this town before, and the Secretary was authorized to accept the invitation. This Report will be brought before the General Meeting for confirmation.

A copy of Vol. XL of the Transactions has been sent to every member not in arrears with his or her subscription,

and to the following societies, namely the Royal Society, the Society of Antiquaries, the Linnean Society, the Royal Institution, the Anthropological Institute, the Geological Society, the Library of the British Museum, the British Museum Natural History Society, the Bodleian Library, the University Library, Cambridge, the Devon and Exeter Institution, the Plymouth Institution, the Natural History Society, Torquay, the North Devon Athenæum, Barnstaple, and the Royal Institution of Cornwall, Truro. The stock of back parts is now :—

1902 Transactions, Vol. XXXIV
Wills, Part IV

Index to Vol. XXXIV

1903 Transactions, Vol. XXXV
Wills, Part V

1904 Transactions, Vol. XXXVI
Wills, Part VI

1905 Transactions, Vol. XXXVII