PreseiTation 



of Natural 



Objects and 



Antiquities. 



Judicious 

 collecting. 



XX. — The Club shall strongly discourage the practice of 

 removing rare plants from the localities where they are to be 

 found or of which they are characteristic, and of risking the 

 extennination of birds and other animals by wanton perse- 

 cution ; and shall use its influence with landowners and 

 others for the protection of the same, and to dispel the 

 prejudices which are leading to then* destruction. The rarer 

 botanical specimens collected at the Field Meetings shall be 

 such as can be gathered without disturbing the roots of the 

 plants, and notes of the habits of birds shall be recorded 

 instead of collecting specimens either of the bu'ds or of their 

 eggs. In hke manner the Club shall endeavour to cultivate 

 a fuller knowledge of local antiquities, historical, popular, 

 and idiomatic, and to promote a taste for carefully preserv- 

 ing the monuments of the past from wanton injurj', [This 

 rule is not intended to restrict the judicious collecting of 

 specimens by indi\idual members necessary for theh" 

 studies.] 



Copyrisrht of XXI. — The copyright in, and the original copy of every 

 Papers, paper, after having been read before the Club, shall be con- 

 sidered as the property of the Club, if there shall be no 

 engagement with its author to the contrary. But if the 

 Club shall dechne or omit to publish any paper for six 

 Calendar months after it shall have been read before the 

 Club, such paper and the copyright therein shall remain and 

 be the property' of the author, the Club, however, having the 

 right to take and retain for its own use one or more copy or 

 copies of such paper. And the non-publication by the Club 

 of any such paper for the period above mentioned shall con- 

 stitute or be sufficient e\idence of an engagement to the 

 effect above mentioned with the author of the paper. 



[It is recommended that everj- paper which is to be read 

 before the Club should be written on foolscap paper, on one 

 side only, with a margin of one inch on each side of the MS.] 



MS. of 

 Papers. 



Eepeal or XXII. — No rule shall be repealed or altered, nor shaU any 



Alteration of addition be made to these rules, except by a majority of votes 



Rules, of the Members present at an Ordinary or Special Meeting 



