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Rules of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History 
and Antiquarian Society, as submitted for approval and adoption 
by the Council, and adopted at the Annual General Meeting held 
on October 12th, 1906. 
I. The Society shall be called the “Dumfriesshire and 
Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society.”’ 
II. The aims of the Society shall be to secure a more frequent 
interchange of thought and opinion among those who devote 
themselves to the study of Natural History, Archeology, and 
kindred subjects; and to elicit and diffuse a taste for these 
studies. 
III. The Society shall consist of Ordinary, Honorary, and 
Corresponding Members. The Ordinary Members shall be 
persons proposed and elected at any meeting of the society by a 
vote of the majority present. The Honorary and Corresponding 
Members shall be persons distinguished for attainments connected 
with the objects of the Society, and elected on the recommenda- 
tion of the Council. 
IV. Ordinary Members shall contribute annually five shil- 
lings in advance, or such other sum as may be agreed upon at the 
annual general meeting. When more than one person from the 
same family join the Society all after the first shall pay half fee. 
By making a single payment of £5 any one duly elected may 
become a member for life. © 
V. The Office-Bearers of the Society shall consist of a Presi- 
dent, Four Vice-Presidents, Secretary, Treasurer, Librarian, 
Curator of Museum, and Curator of Herbarium, who, together 
with not more than Three Honorary Vice-Presidents, and Ten 
other Members, shall constitute the Council, holding office for one 
