PEOCEEDINGS FOE 1892. V 



" ' When one or more vacancies occur the Honorary Secretary shall notify the members of 

 the Section in which they have laken place. At the end of at least two months from the 

 date of such notification' he shall transmit to each of said members a printed list of the candidates 

 nominated, together with copies of the nomination papei-s.^ Each member who wishes to tal^e part 

 in the election, shall strike out from said list the names of candidates whom ho may not consider 

 proper persons to become Fellows of the Society ; he shall also insert in said list the numeral 1 ojiposite 

 the name of the candidate (or the names of the candidates if there are two or more equally deserving 

 in his opinion) whom he prefers to all others; he shall insert the numeral 2 opposite the name or 

 names of candidates whom he regards as less deserving than those indicated by the numeral 1, 

 but more deserving than all the others ; he shall similarly insert the numerals 3, 4, etc., opposite the 

 names of the other candidates, so as to indicate the order in which they stand in his opinion as can- 

 didates for Fellowship ; and he shall finally send the voting paper, filled up in this way and 

 signed by himself, to the Honorary Secretary, so that it may reach him within two months 

 from the date at which said paper was transmitted to said member by the Secretary. The 

 Council shall apjjoint a committee of at least three scrutineers, to whom the Honorary Secretary, 

 as soon as possible after the expiration of these two months, shall hand all the voting papers 

 which he has received. This committee shall first exclude from the election all candidates whose 

 names have been scored out by one-third or more of the members of the Section. They shall next 

 determine from the voting papers what the result of the vote of the Section is in the case of all pos- 

 sible combinations of the remaining candidates, taken two together. Any candidate who may in any 

 of these determinations get the smaller number of votes is then to be excluded. If the number of 

 candidates not thus excluded be equal to the number of vacancies, said candidates are to be reported 

 by the committee to the Council as elected, and if the committee's report be approved, they are to be 

 declared by the Council to have been elected. If the number of candidates not thus excluded be 

 greater than the number of vacancies, the names of said candidates ai-e to be reported to the Council, 

 which, at a meeting called for this purpose, shall, if the committee's report be approved, determine by 

 ballot which of the said candidates are to be elected, the Chairman having for this purpose a second 

 or casting vote. If the number of candidates not thus excluded be less than the number of vacancies, 

 the committee shall regard these candidates as elected, and shall determine which of the remaining 

 candidates are to be elected to the remaining vacancies by a repetition of the above process applied to 

 said remaining candidates alone, and shall report the result to the Council, which shall then proceed 

 as in the former cases.' 



"If the above statement were printed in the 'Proceedings' as apart of, or an appendix to, the 

 annual report. Fellows might take it into consideration during the year ; and should no better system 

 be in the meantime proposed, they might adopt it with such modifications as might be considered 

 desirable at the 1893 meeting. 



" Tours very trulj-, 



"J. G. MacGregor." 



Section III., June 1st, 1892. 



[At a meeting of the Section Dr. Fleming submitted an amended and what appeared to be a more 

 simple method, illustrated by the table on next page. At the request of the Section, he I'cduced it 



'This suggested change is intended to give members time to make nominations after they liave been notified 

 of the occurrence of the vacancies. 



^ The rule as it stands (obviously by a slip) says he shall send the reasons in writing for each nomination. 



