LIlSTs'EAN SOCIETY OF LOS^DO^S". 3 



December 2nd, 1880. 



Prof. Gr. J. Allmax, M.D., F.E.S., President, in tlie Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and signed. 



F. Arthur Canton, Esq., Charles B. Cory, Esq., Charles Eaw- 

 cett, Esq., H. O. Huskisson, Esq., Peter Inchbald, Esq., Charles 

 L. Jackson, Esq., Paul H. M'^Gillivray, Esq., E. W. Emerson 

 M^Ivor, Esq., and Ernest L. Sellon, Esq., were elected Eellows. 



The Eesolutions of Council of November 25th, 1880, relative 

 to proposed alterations of Bye-Laws (to be balloted for at the 

 Evening General Meeting, January 20fch, 1881), were read for 

 the first time as follows : — 



Section 2 of Chapter VIII. of the Bye-Laws shall be repealed, and the 

 following substituted : — 



" The Council for the time beina^ shall annually, at their First Meeting 

 in April, cause to be prepared two Balloting-Lists, one of which (No. l)is 

 to contain the names of Five Fellows whom thev shall recommend to be 

 removed from the Council, and also the names of Six other Fellows out of 

 whom the Council recommend that the Five persons to be elected into the 

 Council shall be chosen; and the other list (No. 2) is to contain the 

 names of such Fellows as they shall recommend to fill the Offices of 

 President, Treasurer, and Secretaries for the year ensuing, which Lists 

 shall be read at the Second General Meeting in April in every year, and 

 then fixed up in the Meeting-room and Library of the Society for the space 

 of fourteen days at least. And if any one Fellow, or more than one Fellow, 

 shall desire to substitute the name or names of any other person or persons 

 in the place of any name or names contained in the said Lists either for 

 removal from or for election into the Council, or for filling the respective 

 offices of President, Treasurer, or Secretary, such one Fellow, or more 

 than one Fellow, shall leave notice in writing at the House of the Society 

 of the name or names they propose to be substituted within seven days 

 after the said Lists shall have been read. Balloting-Lists shall, after the 

 expiration of the said seven days, be printed according to the forms (Nos. !• 

 and 2) in the Schedule, in case no notice shall be previously left as afore- 

 said ; but in case of any such notice or notices being so left, then the 

 name or names of the person or persons proposed to be substituted shall be 

 added to the Lis:s respectively proposed by the Council according to the 

 forms (Nos. 3 and 4) in the Schedule. And such Lists shall be transmitted 

 to each Fellow whose known residence shall be within the United Kingdom 

 at least one week before the Annual General Meeting shall take place." 



Section 4 of the same Chapter shall be repealed and the following sub- 

 stituted : — 



" Each voter, before he delivers his List or Lists, shall strike out the 

 name or names of those persons recommended for whom he does not vote ; 

 and if more names shall be suffered to remain in any List than the number 

 of persons to be elected or removed, such List shall be rejected ; and in 

 case the names suffered to remain shall be less than the number of vacan- 

 cies to be supphed, those names only which shall remain in the List shall 

 stand as voted for." 



In Section 8 the following words shall be omitted : — " should contain 

 more than the proper number of names, or if any List." 



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