64 Bibliographical Notices. 



III. The management of the Club shall be vested in a Committee 

 or Council of thirteen members. The Secretary to be ex officio a 

 member of the Council, and to be paid such amount of salary as to 

 the Council may appear to be a fair remuneration of the trouble at- 

 tached to the office. 



IV. The annual subscription shall be deposited in a chartered 

 Bank in the name of the Secretary and two members of the Council ; 

 and the fund shall be exclusively applied in publishing such works 

 as the Council shall sanction. 



V. The accounts of the receipt and expenditure of the Society 

 shall be examined annually by two Auditors appointed by the Coun- 

 cil, — the Auditors to be members of the Club who are not members 

 of Council, — and their statement circulated among the subscribers. 



VI. The Publications of the Club shall be confined to members 

 only, excepting in cases where the Council may otherwise determine 

 by a unanimous vote. When the work selected is original, an ar- 

 rangement may be made with^the author for extra- copies, — the Club 

 being always secured against any charge for the same. 



VII. The number of volumes to be printed annually must depend 

 on the amount of subscriptions, and the size and nature of the vo- 

 lumes selected ; but the Council wdll be directed to divide the fund 

 as equally as possible in the printing of the Botanical and Zoological 

 departments. At least one volume in Zoology and one in Botany 

 should be published annually. 



VIII. The works which the Club shall endeavour to print may be 

 arranged under the following heads : — 



(1.) Original works in Zoology and Botany, more especially such 

 as illustrate the Natural History of Great Britain and Ireland. 



(2.) A uniform edition of approved works which, when chrono- 

 logically arranged, shall present a complete and perfect view of the 

 progress of the Natural History of the British Islands. The works 

 selected to be edited by competent individuals, who may add pre- 

 faces and notes where these may be thought necessary. 



(3.) The collection of Memoirs, Essays, Tracts, &c., scattered in 

 the Transactions of learned Societies and elsewhere, into convenient 

 volumes, and on a systematic plan. 



(4.) The MSS. preserved in the British Museum, and other pub- 

 lic repositories, relating to the Natural History of Great Britain, &c. 



(5.) A Systematic History of the Zoology and Botany of the 

 British Islands. 



(6.) A • Systema Naturae.* 



(7.) A Descriptive and Systematic Catalogue of all printed books 

 in Zoology and Botany. 



N.B. — These rules, &c. are to be understood as provisional, and 

 are intended only to give an idea of the objects for the accomplish- 

 ment of which the Ray Club is projected. If the Club meets with 

 that support from naturalists which it seems to merit, more efficient 

 and better defined rules may be made by the Council, whose election 

 will be in the hands of the members in general. 



