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At a Meeting of the Council held Feb. 25th, 1851, the following 

 Regulations respecting the reading and publication of 

 Papers and the duties of Curators were adopted. 



PUBLICATION OF PAPERS. 



After the reading of any Paper at the Monthly Meetings the 

 Author shall be requested to furnish an Abstract or Copy of the same 

 to the Secretaries. 



The Abstract or Copy so furnished shall be immediately copied into 

 a folio Book, which book shall be placed in the Library, and be open 

 to the Members, but shall not be taken out of the room, except for 

 the use of the Council at their Meetings, at each of which it shall be 

 laid before them. 



The printing of Papers or Abstracts shall be limited to such Papers 

 as relate to the Natural-History and Antiquities of Yorkshire, or the 

 contents of the Yorkshire Museum. 



The Council shall provide the means of determining what Papers 

 come within this rule, and to what extent they shall be printed, and 

 whether they shall be accompanied or not by plates. 



The transactions shall not be oflfered for sale, and no more than 

 500 copies shall be printed ; — such copies being for the use of Members 

 and for exchange with other Societies. 



Authors shall be allowed 25 copies of their communications free 

 of charge. 



The publication shall be annual. 



DUTIES OF CURATORS. 



The Council being of opinion that the Society derived great benefit 

 from the services of Curators of departments of the Museum through 

 a long period of years, and that the interests of the Institution 

 require that these officers should be maintained in activity and honour, 

 not only as positively useful to the due care of the Collections, but as 

 collaterally important in preserving and extending the favour of the 

 Public — have adopted the following regulations : — 



The Curators of departments shall be severally independent, 

 responsible only to, and allowed free communication with the Council, 

 by written reports or personal communicatiou. 



