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Each Curator shall be requested to attend at the Monthly Meetings 

 of the Members (as was formerly done), to examine and report 

 upon the objects belonging to his department, which may have been 

 received since the preceding Meeting. In case of unavoidable absence 

 from ill health or other cause, a Curator may request another Member 

 to supply his place. 



The Curators shall be requested to state to the Council, from time 

 to time, whatever they may deem fit to mention or suggest in respect 

 of the state of the Collections : as 



Their state of completeness or deficiency ; 

 The manner in which they are exhibited ; 

 The state of nomenclature, &c. 



For the purpose of making such statements, they shall be empowered 

 to attend the Monthly Council Meetings, due notice of the times of 

 holding these Meetings being communicated to them. 



A reference may be made to them before the purchase of Books, 

 Instruments, Natural or Artificial Curiosities, &c., for their opinion as 

 to the suitableness of such purchases. 



The Curators shall be provided with personal Keys of the Cases in 

 their departments, and are encouraged to explain the objects under their 

 care to strangers of eminence who may be accredited to them for the 

 purpose. 



