XXX ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



It was moved in anieiidiiieut to the aiiieudineut, by fSir Saudi'ord 

 Fleming, seconded by Dr. Roy, that the amendment be not adopted, and 

 that the following be substituted as an addition to liule No. 3 : 



" In cases in which the Council is of opinion that in the interests 

 of the advancement of science or literature, it is desirable that persons 

 be elected as members of the Society other than as elsewhere provided, 

 they may once in every two years recommend for election as Honorary 

 Vice-Presidents, not more than two (2) persons who, in their opinion, 

 are such that their election will be of signal benefit to thei Society." — 

 Carried, 



The motion to amend Eule 6 was now taken up and, after further 

 amendments, was adopted as follows: 



That the Fellows shall be persons resident in the Dominion of 

 Canada or iSTewfoundland, who have published original works or memoirs 

 of merit, or have rendered eminent services to literature or science. 



The number of members in each section shall, in general, be limited 

 to thirty, but may be increased to forty if any section should so desire, 

 in the manner hereinafter indicated. 



Nominations to the membership of the Society may be made at any 

 time, and each nomination paper shall be signed by three members of the 

 Section to the membership of which the candidate is nominated. No 

 person shall be nominated whose consent to that end has not previously 

 been obtained. Only those candidates nominated on or before the 

 fifteenth day of February shall be eligible at the ensuing annual meeting. 

 The Honorary Secretary shall keep a record of the nominations, and on 

 or before the first of March, he shall transmit to each member of the 

 Society a printed list of all such nominations, arranged in alphabetical 

 order, indicating the Section to the membership of which each is nom- 

 inated and giving the qualifications of the candidates and the names 

 of their proposers. 



Any candidate whose name shall have been in a previous list of 

 candidates but who shall not have been elected, shall, if his proposers, 

 or any of them, so request in writing before the fifteenth of February 

 immediately preceding the election, be a candidate at such election and 

 his name shall be placed in alphabetical order with those of the new 

 candidates for that election. The nomination, however, of a candidate 

 shall not be valid for more than five years from the date thereof. Any 

 additional qualifications of a candidate may be set fnrtli in a supple- 

 mentary certificate signed by three members of the Section. 



The Honorary Secretary shall also, on or before the first day of 

 March, forward to the members of each, Section a printed ballot con- 

 taining the names of all those nominated to that Section. Each niomber 



