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and some fruits of a Momordica, all forwarded from Zanzibar by 

 Dr. Kirk, F.L.S., for the Kew Museum. 



A framed Plate of coloured drawings of edible and poisonous 

 British Fungi, presented to the Society by Thomas Walker, Esq., 

 F.L.S., was exhibited. 



Before proceeding to the regular business of the Society, 

 the President again read, and explained the purport of, the 

 alterations in the Bye-laws agreed to by the Council, which, in 

 accordance with the Charter of the Society, had been hung up in 

 the common meeting-room and read by the President at two suc- 

 cessive general Meetings of the Society. The following are the 

 said alterations * : — 



Chap. I. Sect. IV. p. 12. Eor "between" substitute "inclu- 

 ding." 



Chap. IV. Sect. V. p. 15. For " the Secretary " substitute " one 

 of the Secretaries." 



Chap. XII. Eepeal Sects. I., II., and III., pp. 21, 22. 



Chap. XII. Sect. VII. p. 22, to be Sect. I., and the word " Li- 

 brarian" to be inserted before " Clerk ; " and at the end of the 

 Section the following words to be added : " provided that the po- 

 sition of the present Librarian, elected by the Society, be not 

 thereby affected." 



Chap. XV. Sect. II. p. 24. After the words " shall be entitled 

 to one copy of such Part " omit the remainder of the Section. 



Chap. XVII. Sect. II. p. 25. For " and by the rest of the 



* The effect of these alterations is as follows : — (a) to reduce the number of 

 Meetings at -which the names of Fellows to be elected must be suspended, from 

 five to three ; (6) to repeal the Bye-law by which no person who shall be chosen 

 to any office in the Society to which any salary or emolument is annexed shall 

 be a FeUow of the Society, or, if such person be a Fellow, that he shall cease to 

 be so upon his election to, or acceptance of, any such office ; (c) to remove the 

 election of Librarian in future out of the hands of the general body of Fellows, 

 and to place it in the hands of the Council ; {d) to give to Fellows the right of 

 receiving all Transactions and other publications of the Society published after 

 the time of their election, provided all payments due to the Society have been 

 paid, instead of only after they have paid one yearly contribution ; (e) to amend 

 the regulation respecting the signing of the Diploma of Foreign Members and 

 the Deeds under the Common Seal of the Society. 



