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Section 2. Receptions for the members and invited guests 

 may be given under the auspices of the Society. 



Article VIII — meetings. 



vSection I. The regular meetings of the Society shall be held 

 on the first Tuesday of each month. Those held in April, July, 

 October and January shall be for the transaction of business. 

 Those held in May, June, August, September, November, Decem- 

 ber, February and March shall be for scientific purposes. The 

 April meeting shall be known as the Annual Meeting, at which 

 the President shall deliver an address, the officers shall read their 

 reports, and the officers of the Society shall be elected. 



Section 2. Nine (9) members shall be a quorum for the 

 transaction of business. 



Section 3. The order of proceeding at business meetings 

 shall be as follows : 



1. Reading of Minutes of preceding business meeting. 



2. Candidates for membership to be proposed. 



3. Election of members. 



4. Reading the Minutes of the Executive Board. 



5. Business arising from the reading of Minutes of the Ex- 

 ecutive Board. 



6. Unfinished bitsiness. 



7. New business. 



8. Scientific communications, 



9. Donations. 

 10. Adjournment. 



The order of proceeding at scientific meetings shall be as fol- 

 lows : 



1. Reading of Minutes of preceding scientific meeting. • 



2. Written communications. 



3. Verbal communications. 



4. Candidates for membership to be proposed. 



5. Election of members. 



6. Miscellaneous business. 



7. Donations. 



8. Adjournment. 



