1 PKOCEEDINGS OF THE 



X. The Honorary Members shall be ladies or gentlemen of eminence in 

 Natural Science, or who shall have done some special service to the Society, and 

 whose usual place of residence is not in the County of Hertford, and they shall 

 be elected only at the Anniversary Meetings by the Members upon tlie recommen- 

 dation of the Council, not more than five to be elected in any one year. 



XI. Every Candidate for admission shall be proposed by two or more Members, 

 who shall sign a certificate in recommendation of such candidate, one of the pro- 

 posers from personal knowledge. The certificate shall be read from the Chair at 

 the Ordinary Meeting following its receipt by either of the Secretaries, and the 

 candidate shall be balloted for at the next Ordinarv Meeting at Watturd, one 

 black ball in six excluding. 



XII. Members wishing to resign at the termination of any year are required 

 to inform one of the Secretaries, in writing, of their intention to do so, on or 

 before the 30th of November in that year. 



XIII. The Accounts of the Society shall be made up to the 31st of December 

 in each year, and audited by two Auditors appointed at the first ensuing Ordinary 

 Meeting at Watford ; and the Balance Sheet, together with a Report on the 

 general progress of the Society during the preceding year, shall be submitted to 

 the Anniversary Meeting in February. 



XIV. All the funded and other property of the Society shall be vested in 

 three or more Trustees, who shall be Life Members of the Society, appointed by 

 the Council. 



XV. The Society shall discourage the practice of removing rare plants from 

 tlie localities of which they are characteristic, and of exterminating rare birds, 

 fish, and other animals, and shall use its infiuence with landowners and others for 

 the protection of the characteristic birds of the County : the rarer botanical 

 specimens collected at the Field Meetings shall be chiefly such as can be gathered 

 without disturbing the roots of the plants ; and notes on the habits of birds shall 

 be recorded instead of collecting specimens, either of the birds or of their eggs. 



XVI. The Council may authorise the Society to undertake the investigation 

 of any subject of a scientific nature relating to the County, and to publish the 

 results of any such investigation. 



XVII. No Rule shall be altered except by a majority of votes of the Members 

 present at a Special Meeting at AV afford called for that purpose. The Council 

 may at any time, and shall upon a requisition signed by not less than twelve 

 Members, convene a Special Meeting ; and a printed notice stating the pvupose 

 for which the meeting is convened shall be sent to each Member not less than ten 

 days before such meeting, at which no business shall be considered except that for 

 ■which it was convened. 



XVIII. A copy of these Rules shall be sent by one of the Secretaries to each 

 Member upon election to membership of the Society. 



A vote was then taken and the members present were nnani- 

 mously in favour of the adoption of the Rules. 



It was then decided that the Rules should date from the 1st of 

 July, and that the four vacancies in the Council occasioned by 

 Rule 3 should be left to be filled up at the next Anniversary 

 Meeting.* 



* One of these vacancies was provisionally filled up by the Council by the 

 appointment of Mr. R. B. Croft, R.N., F.L.S., as Honorary Secretary 2>ro tent. 

 for East Plerts. 



