Pirst. For the annual removal by the Fellows of five Members 

 of the Council, and for the election from the Fellows of the 

 Society of five others in their room, the time, place and manner of 

 such election being specified (p. 7). 



Secondly. For the annual election by the Fellows from the 

 Members of Council, of a President, Treasurer, and Secretary, the 

 time, place and manner of such Elections being also specified 

 (p. 7). 



Thirdly. For the appointment by the Fellows of such other 

 persons (without a limit as to the range of selection) to be 

 Ofiicers of the Society for the year ensuing, as may be thought 

 proper and necessary for transacting and managing its busi- 

 ness, without specifying the time, place and manner of such 

 appointments (p. 8) ; and 



Fourthly. For the election by the Fellows of such persons as 

 they shall think fit to be Fellows, Honorary Members, Foreign 

 Members and Associates (p. 8), again without specifying the 

 time, place or manner of such elections (p. 8). 



The Charter also empowers the Council to make Bye-laws for 

 (amongst other things) fixing and determining the time, place and 

 manner of electing, appointing and removing all Fellows, Honor- 

 ary Members, Foreign Members and Associates of the said Society, 

 and all other subordinate Ofl&cers, Attendants and Servants as 

 shall be deemed necessary or useful for the said Society (p. 8). 

 And it is provided (p. 9) that the Bye-laws may from time to time 

 be varied or revoked, and other Bye-laws made so that the same 

 be not repugnant to the Charter. 



A print of the Bye-laws by which, until the recent alterations 

 hereafter referred to, the Society, has been regulated, accompanies 

 the printed copy of the Charter. 



In exercise of the power above referred to, the Council recently 

 proposed certain alterations in the Bye-laws, to which alterations, 

 with the exception of those inserted in Manuscript at pp. 21 and 

 22 of the accompanying print of the Bye-laws, no objection has 

 been taken. 



All the proposed alterations were hung up in the Meeting- 

 room of the Society, and read by the President in the manner 

 provided by the Charter. At the Meeting for the confirmation 

 of the proposed alterations in the Bye-laws, which took place on 

 the 15th January last, some of the Fellows strongly opposed the 

 alteration which places the election of the Librarian in the hands 



