LIira'EAN SOCIETY OF LONUON". 1 1 



April 21st, 1881. 



"W. SwEETLAND Dailas, F.L.S., ill the Cliair. 



Tlie Minutes o£ the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Dr. Charles Barnard, James Bisset, Esq., "William Holmes, 

 Esq., Dr. Peter W. Marriott, John Charles Sawer, Esq., and 

 S. Stubbs, Esq., were elected Fellows. 



The Chairman then called the attention of the Fellows pre- 

 sent to the Resolutions of the Council of March 17th, 1881, 

 respecting the further proposed alterations of Bye-Laws. He 

 explained that the Fellows themselves having on the 20th January 

 last (1881) repealed and substituted Section 4 of Chapter VIII., 

 and confirmed other alterations in Chapters VIII. , XII., XIII. , 

 and XIV., while rejecting the proposed repeal of Section 2, 

 Chapter VIII., and a substitution of a new Bye-Law, had unin- 

 tentionally interfered with their own powers of voting. 



To remedy this defect the Council had revised the new Bye- 

 Law in question, expunging supposed objectionable clauses ; and 

 the same having been duly announced and successively read 

 from the Chair at the Meetings of the l7th March and 7th 

 April, it would now again be read and balloted for in due 

 form. 



The Council being solely actuated by the desire to have the 

 Bye-Laws in conformity with the wishes of the majority of the 

 Fellows, suggested a return to the original Bye-Laws Sections 4 

 and 8 of Chapter VIII., in the event of the revised substitution 

 Section 2 Chapter VIIT. being rejected. 



The Chairman then announced, as the proposal of the Council, 

 that Section 2 of Chapter VIII. of the Bye-Laws shall be re- 

 pealed and the following substituted : — 



"The Council foi- the time being shall annually, at their First Meeting 

 in April, cause to be prepared two Balloting-Lists, one of which (No. 1) 

 is to contain the names of Five Fellows whom they shall recommend to be 

 removed from the Council, and also the names of Five Fellows whom 

 the Council recommend to be elected into the Council; 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 which he or they may propose to be substi- 

 tuted 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. 1 and 2) in the Schedule to the existing Bye-Laws, in 



