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to delay of boxes, and had to write many letters to offenders in 

 that respect. On one occasion four boxes arrived together at the 

 house of one member, and since then none at all had come to 

 hand, although more than one was due. On this subject a letter 

 had been received from the Rev. W. H. Lett, who suggested that 

 all " box-stoppers " should be relegated to a special circuit consist- 

 ing of themselves alone, and marked with the letter " Z." 



On the suggested Rule lo, the Rev. C. H. Waddell wrote. 

 He feared that the proposition would not work, and proposed as 

 an amended rule, that members detaining the boxes unreasonably 

 so as to cause inconvenience should be passed over in the circuit 

 by direction of the Secretary, on information of their repeated 

 fault being communicated to him. 



Mr. Alfred Atkinson, the first President of the Society, wrote 

 from Brigg, and said he thought that honorary members should 

 not have a vote in the proceedings and working of the Society. 



A letter was also received that evening, addressed to the 

 President, from Mr. C. N. Peal, of Ealing, expressing complete 

 disapproval of all the propositions. 



Many other letters had been received, but as their views were 

 embodied, as far as practicable, in the revised copy of suggested 

 rules, it would be quite unnecessary to take up the time of the 

 meeting in reading them. 



The Secretary observed that he had little further to say, except 

 that, as he had already stated, he had received a great many 

 replies to the circular issued by the Committee. All contained 

 suggestions which he considered more or less good, and he had 

 tried, as far as possible, to meet the suggestions which had reached 

 him up to that time. 



A member, whose opinion he considered was worthy of 

 attention, suggested that it would be unwise to designate members 

 who pay a subscription " honorary members." He (the Secretary) 

 was quite willing to abandon the term honorary, but thought that 

 some of the best working members might with justice be raised to 

 the dignity of Fellows. 



With respect to the 4th suggestion, which related to the regu- 

 lar supply of boxes, he thought every member present had felt 

 more or less the inconvenience of receiving back their slides 

 without the notes, after going through every circuit. To keep up 

 a constant circulation, five slides were required from every mem- 

 ber, but a great many members did not put in five, and on the 

 next circuit some good-natured friend would put one in to fill the 

 box. That foreign slide would probably accumulate a great many 

 notes, and in due course it would be returned to the sender, but 

 without the notes. One reason why our valued member, Mr. 



