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may be committed to a single member. A majority of any 

 committee shall be a quorum. 



7. All committees shall be chosen, unless otherwise directed 

 by the Society, on nominations previously made and seconded, 

 the question being put on each member separately. 

 • 8. The member first elected of any committee shall be the 

 chairman, and considered responsible for the discharge of the 

 duties enjoined on the committee. 



9. Committees shall report at the meeting next following 

 their appointment, unless otherwise ordered by the Society. 



10. All reports shall be in writing, and signed by the mem- 

 bers agreeing thereto. 



11. The names of the committees, the time of their appoint- 

 ment, the matter or business committed to them, the time at 

 which they are to report, and the time at which their final 

 report is presented, shall be entered by the secretaries in a 

 book provided for that purpose. 



CHAPTER XII. 



OF THE MAGELLANIC FUND. 



Section 1. John Ilyacinth de Magellan, in London, having 

 in the year 1786 offered to the Society, as a donation, the sum 

 of two hundred guineas, to be by them vested in a secure and 

 permanent fund, to the end that the interest arising therefrom 

 should be annually disposed of in premiums, to be adjudged 

 by them to the author of the best discovery, or most useful 

 invention, relating to Navigation, Astronomy, or Natural 

 Philosophy (mere natural history only excepted), and the 

 Society having accepted of the above donation, they hereby 

 publish the conditions, prescribed by the donor and agreed to 

 by the Society, upon which the said annual premiums will 

 be awarded. 



CONDITIONS OF THE MAGELLANIC PREMIUM. 



1. The candidate shall send his discovery, invention, or im- 

 provement, addressed to the president, or one of the vice-presi- 



