their favour, however, if the majority of Fellows desired them 

 to be introduced as the subjects for a new section of the Royal 

 Society. At the same time, he thought they should be regular. 

 No individual member had the right to propose such a motion 

 as this; it must come from the Council. 



The Chairman : It has been before the Council, and the 

 Council brought it up to-night. 



Mr. T. Stephens said he would move as an amendment 

 that the proposed new section be given a trial for the current 

 year. If it proved beneficial to the society, it would then 

 be «asy to move for its continuance. 



Mr. A. 0. Green thought that some better reason should 

 be found than the one that these subjects were outside the 

 scope of the society. If they were, they should be included 

 within it as soon as possible. 



Mr. L. E. Piesse said that the nresent constitution of the 

 society was dated 1907, and in it the objects of the society were 

 defined as the study of science in all its various branches. It 

 could not be denied that education was a science nowadays. He 

 would suniDort the proposal, as he thought the influence of the 

 society would be very much increased by the inclusion ot these 

 subjects, and that it would benefit by an increase of members. 



The Chairman said that he thought that any good attempt 

 to broaden the work of the society was one that they should 

 support. They must broaden their work, and take in all 

 sciences, so increasing the interest of the people in their doings, 

 or else they would go into extinction altogether. He could not 

 see any object in limiting the new sub-section to the current 

 year, as the Fellows could always stop it if they wished to. 



Mr. J. A. Johnson : If we cannot keep the section going 

 it will die a natural death, and drop out. 



Mr. T. A. Stephens : Then I will not move any amendment, 

 but will support the motion as it stands. 



The motion was carried. 



The reading of Dr. Fritz Noetling's paper on "The Manu- 

 facture of the Tero-Watta" was postponed until a future 

 meeting. 



MAY 22nd, 1911. . 



A special meeting of the Royal Society was held at the 

 Museum on Monday evening, May 22, 1911/ for the purpose of 

 considering the new rules drawn up by the committee appointed 

 for the purpose at the last annual general meeting. Hon. Dr. 

 Butler occupied the chair. 



