2 Rules. 



1 0. That the affairs of the Society be conducted by a President, Vice- 

 President, Secretary, and Treasurer ; and by a Committee consisting of 

 these officers, the Ex-President, and six Ordinary Members of the 

 Society ; four Members of the Committee, of whom one at least shall be 

 an officer, to form a quorum. 



1 1 . That the President and Vice-President be appointed by the Com- 

 mittee, annually, at the end of the Summer Terra, or in the event of the 

 resignation of either before that period, from among the Masters who 

 shall be Honorary Members of the Society. 



12. That it be the duty of the Committee to propose, at the last 

 Meeting but one of the Summer Term, members to fill the offices of 

 Secretary and Treasurer, and the other vacancies in the Committee for 

 the following year ; and that it be competent for any Member at the 

 same Meeting to propose other candidates, whose names, if duly seconded, 

 shall be submitted to the Society, together with those of the nominees of 

 the Committee, for election by ballot at the next Meeting. 



1 3. That any vacancy in the Committee, or in the office of Secretary 

 or Treasurer, occurring at any other time than at the end of the Summer 

 Term, be filled up in like manner, by a nomination at the ordinary 

 Meeting next following such vacancy, and by election at the next 

 succeeding ordinary Meeting. 



14. That the Committee be competent to fix the times of ordinary 

 Meetings, and the papers to be read at each, and to authorize the ex- 

 penditure of funds ; but that all rules affecting the constitution of the 

 Society, must be passed by a majority of those present at an ordinary 

 Meeting. 



15. That any Member on giving notice to the Secretary, be permitted 

 to introduce a friend. 



16. That any Member or Associate of the Society, who absents himself 

 from two consecutive meetings without giving some reason to the Presi- 

 dent, shall pay a fine of Is. 



17. That every Member on joining the Society, sign the following 

 declaration : — 



" I hereby promise to conform to the rules, and to give my best 

 assistance in carrying out the objects of the Harrow School Scientific 

 Society, so long as I continue a Member of the same." 



18. That the Members and Associates endeavour to exhibit, at each 



Meeting of the Society, some object of scientific interest. 



19. That the objects of the Society be: to record scientific observa- 

 tions ; to promote the formation of a Harrow School Museum of Natural 

 History ; and to encourage, by offering Prizes or otherwise, the pursuit 

 of Science in the School. 



