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r|uarter past 8 precisely ; and that it shall be in the power of the Council to call a Ge- 

 neral Meeting of the Society at any time it may be expedient to do so. 



29. That the order of business for each night of proceeding be as follows : — 



1st. The Secretary shall read aloud the Minutes of the preceding meeting, and 

 the Chairman shall sign them. 



2nd. The presents and donations to the Society shall be announced and exhi- 

 bited. 



3rd. Papers for the night shall be announced and read. 



4tli. That the reading of no paper occupy more than half an hour, except by 

 the consent of the meeting. 



5th. That the Members present shall then be invited by the President to deliver 

 tlieir opinions on the papers -which have been read, and on the specimens which 

 may have been exhibited at the meeting. 



Gth. That the private business of the Society, which is to be discussed at the 

 ordinary meetings, shall be transacted after the communications of the evening 

 have b»en read, and that all strangers and visitors be requested to withdraw. 



30. All questions shall be decided by a majority. When the numbers are equal, the 

 Chairman shall have a casting voice. 



31. Each Member shall have the privilege of introducing one visitor to the ordinary 

 meetings, provided he writes the name of the visitor in a book to be kept for that purpose. 



32. Any Members wishing to propose or alter a Regulation of the Society shall give 

 notice at one of the ordinary meetings, and it shall be discussed and decided at the next 

 ordinary meeting of the Society ; and the Secretary shall cause a copy of such notice to be 

 posted in a conspicuous part of the meeting-room of the Society, a fortnight at least before 

 the next meeting. 



33. That the Secretaries give notice in the summonses to Members for the ordinary 

 meetings of any important questions to be discussed at that meeting. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



34. The Annual General Meeting shall be held in November in each year, for the pur- 

 p<ise of electing Officers and Council for the ensuing year, and hearing the Annual lieport 

 of the proceedings and affairs of the Society. 



35. The chair shall be taken at a quarter past eight precisely. 



36. A list shall be prepared by the Council containing the names of such persons as 

 they recommend to be elected for the ensuing year. 



37. A Member wishing to remove any person from the list may strike out his name, 

 and write in its place the name of the pcrspu he wishes to be elected in his stead. 



38. A balloting-box shall be placed on the table, and, at the expiration of one hour, 

 the Chairman shall announce the result of the ballot. 



39. That in the ballot a majority of the votes shall decide. 



40. During the progress of the ballot the Annual Report shall be read by one of the 

 Secretaries. 



41. The Chairman shall then put the question shall the Report be adopted. 



PAPEKS. 



42. All Papers read at the meeting, unless previously otherwise stipulated, are to be 

 considered the property of the Society. 



43. That due notice shall be given, through the Secretaries, of all Papers intended to 

 1)0 read at the ordinary meetings of the Society, in order that they may be submitted to 

 the Council for their approval. 



44. No Paper shall be read at the meetings of the Society unless the Secretary shall 

 have apprized the author of these Regulations, in case he shall not be a Member of th« 

 Society. 



45. That each person reading a Paper to the Society shall furnish to the Secretaries, 

 nt tiio meeting, an abstract of his Paper for insertion on the Minutes, and for publication. 



Address, **Tbe Seoetaries, Natural History Society, 912, Great Brunswick-street, 



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