Transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts

1. The Transactions shall be printed in octavo, as at present, once

a-year.

2. Seven hundred and fifty copies shall be printed; a copy being sent to each Member in Edinburgh, and to such Members residing elsewhere, as shall give directions for that purpose, furnishing the printers, Messrs Neill & Co., with a note of the addresses of friends in Edinburgh with whom they may be left. A certain number of the extra copies shall be placed in the hands of the publishers, Messrs A. & C. Black, booksellers, Edinburgh, for sale; and the remainder partly presented to such Societies as are in use to present their Transactions to this Society, or as may be expected to do so, and partly retained for the purpose of making up defective sets at the publication price.

3. A Committee of the Council, to be called the Committee on Publication, shall be appointed to superintend the selection of the papers to be embodied in the Transactions, and generally to assist the editor, who shall be convener of such Committee. 4. No paper shall be printed without the sanction of such Committee, who shall have power to confer with the authors of papers, with a view to their condensation, correction, and adjustment for publication, necessity for plates or woodcuts, &c.; and to take the aid of any Member or Members of the Society who may happen to be peculiarly conversant with the particular subjects to which papers refer.

5. It shall be in the power of special Committees to whom papers are referred at the Meetings of the Society, to recommend such papers, when of importance, to the consideration of the Publication Committee, with a view to their being printed, besides indicating whether, in their opinion, Prizes should be awarded, or other favourable notice of such papers should be given ;—it being understood that the final determination as to the publication shall rest entirely with the Committee on Publication.

6. The Committee on Publication shall meet from time to time during the Session, so that the preparation and printing of the papers may be in progress, and the volume of Transactions be, as far as possble, advanced at its termination.

7. So soon as the publication of any paper has been determined upon, it shall be announced to the author, and the paper transmitted (if possible) to him; and he shall be required, if necessary, to transcribe it in a fair legible hand, and to arrange, compare, and correct it carefully for the press, before it is sent to the editor for his revision.

8. After the paper is in types, one proof and one revise only shall be allowed to the authors for revisal at the Society's expense. All extra proofs and revises must be paid for by the authors themselves.

9. Where plates or woodcuts are necessary, the authors will be required to furnish the drawings, reduced to a scale suitable to the size of the work; the dimensions of the plates being 7 by 4 inches for a common octavo plate, and 7 by 10 or 12 inches for a quarto or folding plate. Woodcuts not to exceed the width of the page, being 4 inches.

10. It shall be competent to the Publication Committee to permit the authors of papers printed in the Transactions to have a limited number of such papers separately thrown off for their private use, on paying the expense of paper, press-work, stitching, &c.

EDINBURGH, 8th December 1851.

APPENDIX (E).

LIST

OF THE

OFFICE-BEARERS AND FELLOWS

OF THE

ROYAL SCOTTISH SOCIETY OF ARTS.

AS AT 1ST NOVEMBER 1851.

THE QUEEN, PATRONESS.

OFFICE-BEARERS FOR SESSION 1850-51.

THOMAS GRAINGER, Esq., F.R.S.E., Memb. Inst. C.E.
RICHARD WHYTOCK, Esq.

President,