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January, stating the number of members who have failed to pay 

 their semi-annual contributions. 



Art. VII. The committee on publications shall conduct the 

 printing and publishing of the " Journal," etc., under the rules of 

 the Section and report at the stated meeting in December. 



Art. VIII. The committee on the library, the chairman of 

 which shall act as Librarian, shall have supervision of the books 

 which belong to the Conchological Library, of which it shall pre 

 pare and publish a catalogue. It shall report to the Section at 

 each meeting the names of all newly published works, in order 

 that they may be obtained for the library ; it shall purchase 

 books, negotiate exchanges and sales of duplicates thereof as 

 directed by the section ; keep a correct record of all their trans- 

 actions, and report at the stated meeting in December. 



Art IX. The standing committees, numbered from one to 

 nine inclusive, in Article I, Chapter XI, in conjunction with the 

 conservator, have charge of the collections in their respective 

 departments. They shall cause to be arranged, labelled and 

 kept in order all articles presented and deposited, make and 

 preserve accurate catalogues of them, with the name of the 

 donor or depositor of each article, and at the stated meeting in 

 December each committee shall report to the Section the con- 

 dition of its department. 



And each of the committees, from one to nine, in the order 

 named in Art. I, of this chapter, may read at any meeting, 

 every three months, a summary of the general progress of its 

 department, embracing announcements of discoveries and pub- 

 lications. Such periscopic summaries shall be given to the com- 

 mittee on publication, to be printed or not, in the " Journal,'' 

 entire or in part, as the committee may determine. 



Art. X. The committee on lectures and prizes shall have the 

 immediate business management of public lectures delivered under 

 the auspices of the Section, and provide a verbal communication 

 for each meeting, to be announced when practicable at the pre- 

 ceding meeting. They shall also report the names and claims 

 of persons entitled, in their opinion, to receive the prize medals 

 of the Section, and present the same upon their adjudication. 

 They shall also propose subjects for competition for prizes, and 



