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altered alsD, ia order that they should hereafter fall due at the date 

 of the annual meeting. They would, therefore, have to consider if 

 any difficulty would be likely to arise on this account, sufficiently serious 

 to prevent the p )ssibility of making the alteration. One way of meeting 

 such a difficulty would be by paying 10s. as usual in July, and 

 then another 5s. in December, thus covering the period of 18 months. As 

 regarded his own individual view of the proposition, it was that a winter 

 month would be more convenient to the majority of the members, because 

 it was difficult to get a good meeting in the summer when so many 

 members were away for holidays, and no doubt there were many amongst 

 those who would like to have the opportunity of proposing members forelec_ 

 tion on the Committee, and of otherwise taking part in the business of the 

 annual meeting. He should not, however, have brought the matter 

 forward himself, but as this had been done independently by another 

 member, he thought he might sav a few words about it. He would now 

 call upon the Secretary to read a letter from the Treasurer on the 

 mat r er, since most of the trouble arising from the change would in the 

 first instance fall upon him, and then he would call upon the proposer of 

 the morion to lay it before the meeting. 



The Secretary then read a letter from the Treasurer, stating that he 

 perfectly agreed as to the desirability of making the proposed alteration, 

 though it would no doubt add to his work at first. 



Mr. E. M. Nelson said he had much pleasure in proposing that an alter- 

 ation be made in the rules, to euable them to shift the date of the annual 

 meeting from a summer to a winter month ; he did this mainly on the 

 ground that by so doing they would be acting for the convenience of a 

 large number of members, who were at present unable to attend at the end 

 of July. It so happened that, from the fact of his having always been out 

 of town at the time, he had never yet been able to attend an annual 

 meeting, and having remarked this fact to another member, he found that 

 from the same cause this member also had never been present at an annual 

 meeting. Finding that there were others similarly situated, he thought 

 something ought to be done, and, therefore, he brought the matter before 

 the Committee in order to see if they would be willing to sanction the 

 change, and lie found on mentioning it, that the members present seemed 

 to agree that the change was desirable. One point the President had not 

 mentioned, and that was that it seemed scarcely fair to drag a President 

 up from the country in the middle of the summer for the purpose of 

 presiding at the annual meeting. He thought there need be no trouble 

 about the payment of subscriptions ; it would be a very simple matter for 

 members to pay 5s. in July for the rest of the current year, and then 10s. 

 at the annual meeting in the winter for the whole of the year following. 



Mr. Morland said as a non-official member of the Club, he should be 

 glad to second this proposal ; he had attended some annual meetings and 

 remarked on the smallness of the attendance. 



