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first Friday of each month, and shall continue during winter, 

 beginning in October and ending with April, and at which the 

 ordinary business of the Society will be transacted, papers read 

 and discussed, and objects of interest examined. 



7th. Field Meetings shall be held during the summer, begin- 

 ning with May and ending with September, to visit and examine 

 places and objects of interest, to give field demonstrations, to 

 collect specimens, and otherwise carry out the aims of the Society, 

 arrangements for which shall be made at the last meeting of each 

 Winter Session. 



8th. The Annual Meeting of the Society shall be held on the 

 first Friday of October, being the first meeting of the Winter 

 Session, at which Ofiice-bearers and Members of Committee shall 

 be elected for the ensuing year, reports — general and financial — 

 for the past year will be received, and proposals for the extension 

 and improvement of the Society will be heard and discussed. 



9th. Each Member may introduce a friend to any Ordinary or 

 Field Meeting of the Society — such friend not to be admitted 

 more than twice during the same year. 



10th. The Secretary shall keep a minute book of the proceed- 

 ings of the Society, and a register of the Members — Life, 

 Ordinary, and Honorary or Corresponding ; and shall give in a 

 report of the Society's proceedings at the Annual Meeting. 



1 1 th. The Treasurer shall collect and take charge of the annual 

 subscriptions and funds of the Society, and make payments there- 

 from, under the direction of the Committee, to whom he shall 

 annually submit an account of his intromissions, to be audited 

 and prepared for submission to the Society at its Annual Meeting. 



12th. Alterations and Repeals of the foregoing Rules, and new 

 or additional ones, shall only be made by three-fourths of the 

 Ordinary Members present at any meeting of the Society, of which 

 notice shall have been given at the previous monthly meeting. 



13th. The Secretary shall at any time call a meeting of the 

 Society, on receiving the instructions of the Committee, or the 

 requisition in writing of any six Ordinary Members. 



14th. All papers read before the Society shall become its 

 property. 



15th. All Members whose subscriptions have been unpaid 

 for fifteen months shall have their names deleted from the roll of 

 Membership if, after receiving notice from the Treasurer, they 

 still neglect to pay. 



