EOYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. LXXIII 



tjession on the recommendation of the Council, grant to such member the privilege of retaining his 

 title, and his name shall thenceforward bo entered on the lists as a retired member retaining title. 



Any member failing to attend three years in succession, without presenting a paper, or assigning 

 reasons in writing satisfactory to the Society, shall be considered to have resigned. 



8. — Corresponding Members. 



The Society may elect by ballot on proposal by three members, or on recommendation of the 

 Council, persons not resident in Canada as corresponding members. Such persons must be eminent 

 in literatui-e or science, and evidence to that effect must be presented to the Society at the time of 

 their proposal or recommendation. The number of corresponding members shall be limited to sixteen. 



That in acting under rule 8 of the constitution, four of the corresponding members shall be elected 

 for each section ; and the name or names proposed, the names of the proposers, and the reasons in 

 writing, shall be announced to the Society through the Honorary Secretary, at least one day before 

 the balloting for any such corresponding member. (Resolution of May, 188-1.) 



9. — Meetings. 



The Society shall hold an annual meeting in such city of the Dominion as it may determine from 

 time to time. It may at any annual meeting appoint other meetings to be held in the course of the 

 year. The time of holding the annual meeting shall be on a day or days to be determined at the next 

 previous meeting, oi-, failing this, by the Council. The offices of the Society shall be in the city of 

 Ottawa, and its meeting shall be held in that city unless otherwise determined. 



10. — Papers. 



The title of any Papei-, Memoir or other production, by a member, intended to be read at a meet- 

 ing of the Society, shall be submitted, together with an abstract of its contents, to the Council, through 

 the Secretary, j^revious to the meeting at which it is to be read. On its approval, each such com- 

 munication shall be assigned to the section to which it belongs, and having been therein read and dis- 

 cussed, shall be submitted to a committee of the section, and on report of said committee, may be 

 recommended to the Council for publication, either entire or in abstract, in the Transactions of the 

 Society. Communications by persons not members of the Society may be submitted by members on 

 the same conditions as their own productions. 



11. — Associated Societies. 



Every scientific or literai-y society in the Dominion which may be selected by vote of the Society 

 shall be invited by circular of the Honorary Secretary to elect annually one of its members as a dele- 

 gate to the meetings of the Society, such delegate to have, during his term of office, the privilege of 

 taking part in all general or sectional meetings for reading and discussion of papers, and to be em- 

 powered to communicate a short statement of original work done and papers published during the 

 year by his society, and to report on any matters in which the Royal Society may usefully aid in 

 publication or otherwise. 



12. — Circulation of Transactions. 



Copies of the Transactions of the Society shall be sent to the following : — 



All members who have paid their subscriptions. 

 All Associated Societies. 



Proc. 1891. K. 



