6 PEOCEEDINGS OP THE 



February 19tb, 1891. 



Prof. Chables Stewart, President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Prank Hill Perry Coste, Esq., Herbert Jones, Esq., and 

 i\lexander Horsburgh Turnbull, Esq., were elected Pellows. 



The President then read the following proposed alterations iu 

 certain Bye-Laws, to be submitted to the Pellows for approval 

 on March 19th :— 



Chap. I. Sect. 4. 



Each Certificate of Pecommendation of a Candidate for 

 election as PelloAv shall be read at a General Meeting of the 

 Society, and then hung up in the common meeting room, 

 with the date on which it was read written thereon, for two 

 further meetings at least, before the date appointed for the 

 ballot. 



Chap. I. Sect. 5. 



No more than thirty persons shall be elected as Pellows 

 in any one year. The election shall take place at the Greneral 

 Meeting held on the first Thursday in May. The balloting 

 list shaJl contain the names of all the Candidates, arranged 

 iu the order in which they shall be received, and a copy shall 

 be supplied to every Fellow present at the meeting who shall 

 apply for it. Each Pellow voting shall put a mark opposite 

 the name he desires to vote for, and shall place his list so 

 marked in the balloting glass, which shall remain open until 

 half-past Eight o'clock. If any Pellow shall vote for more 

 than thirty names, his voting-paper shall be invalid. "When 

 the ballot is closed the President, or Chairman, shall appoint 

 three or more scrutineers to examine the lists and to report 

 the result to him, whereupon he shall declare the same, and 

 he may in case of need order a further ballot or ballots. JN"© 

 person shall be declared to be elected a Pellow unless he have 

 in his favour a majority of the Pellows voting. The Certi- 

 ficate of an unsuccessful Candidate may be resuspended on 

 the written request of one of his proposers. 



Proposed Addition to tlie foregoing Section. 



After the words " arranged in the order in which they shall 

 be received," add : — 



" and an asterisk shall be placed opposite the names of 

 those thirty Candidates whom in the opinion of the Council it 

 is most desirable to elect into the Societv." 



