VIII. 



shall form a quorum. The Meetings shall be held at such times as the Secretary may deem necessary. 

 At any regular meetinj< including a suiEcient number of Committee Meml»ers, they may then and there 

 declare themselves and act as a Committee for the ordinary business of the Society. 



10. — An Annual Meeting shall be held on the second Tuesday in October in each year at Canter- 

 bury, for the purpose of electing the officers for the current year, receiving the Annual Statement of 

 Accounts and Report of ,the Committee, and conductiog the general affairs of the Society, but the 

 President shall be proposed for election at a Meeting held in the previous January. 



(], — Special General Meetings may be summoned by the Committee, or by the Secretary, on the 

 requisition {in writing) of any six members of the Society, the specific purpose of the Meeting being 

 stated in the notice, which shall be sent to each Member not later than one week before the time of 

 such meeting. 



12.— All questions discussed at the Meetings shall be decided by a majority of votes ; and if 

 upon any any question the votes shall be equal, the Chairman of the Meeting shall have the second or 

 casting vote. 



13, — In the event of any vacancy occurring in the Officers or Committee between the Annual 

 Meetings, the same shall be filled up by the Committee. Should any member of the Committee absent 

 himself from all Committee Meetings for six months, anew member may then be elected to fill his place. 



14. — In order to facilitate the objects of the Society, the Committee shall be empowered to 

 appoint any member a Local Secretary for the town or district in which he may reside, or a Referee for 

 any particular branch of Science. Such local Secretaries or Referees shall be ex-o_fficio members of the 

 Committee, and shall, if possible, send to the Committee, before October :ird. an Annual Report for 

 their district— or particular branch of science, such report to contain observations on the prevalence and 

 earliest appearance of particular species, the effects of severe frosts, gales, etc. ; new discoveries or special 

 photographs taiieu ; or work done on the lines recommended by the Committees of the British Association. 



SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS AND EXCURSIONS. 



l,"i. — The Meetings for Scientific Business shall be held fortnightly at Canterbury during the 

 winter months ; and extra Meetings at such place and time as the Committee shall have posted due 

 notice of in the Society's apartment. Each member shall have the right of introducing a Visitor at 

 these Meetings. 



16. — There shall be Excursions fortnightly, or as often as the Committee arrange, in the summer 

 months, on Thursday afternoons, and extra Excursions at such times and days ns the Committee shall 

 have posted due notice in the Society's apartment. Each member shall have the right of introducing 

 a visitor at these Excursions. 



17. — Minutes of the proceedings of all meetings shall be entered by the Secretary in a book kept 

 for that purpose. 



IS. — The Secretary shall give due notice of Meetings and Excursions to every Member, stating 

 the time and place thereof. 



LOCAL AND DISTRICT MEETINGS. 



19. — To promote still further the objects and interests of the Society, Local Secretaries appointed 

 under Rule 14, and Members living outside Canterbury, are invited to organize Meetings or Excursions 

 in their district, and to give notice of the same to the General and all the Local Secretaries, stating the 

 time and place of Meeting, and what particular subjects are to be brought forward. 



COLLECTION OF SPECIMENS. 

 20. — The Society shall endeavour to add worthy and typical specimens of objects directly 

 connected with Natural History to the Canterbury Royal Museuui. Such addition to be made in 

 accordance with the Rules of that Museum. 



LIBRARY. 



21.— Only Books and Periodicals connected with Science and Natural History shall be purchased 

 by the funds of the Society, and the number and particular books of this class to be purchased shall be 

 determined by the Committee. 



22. — All the Books and Periodicals shall be kept in the Reference Library of the Beaney 

 Institute so long as the Agreement between the Society and the Corporation lasts, to be referred to 

 or taken out in accordance with the special rules sanctioned for that Library. 



23. — Members are also invited to lend books for the use of the Library, reserving to themselves 

 the full right of ownership ; such Books to be under the care of the Librarian, and not allowed to be 

 taken out of the Library. 



24. — In order to allow the Society's Librarian to examine the Books they must all be returned to 

 the Library auJ none taken therefrom during the first week in every June. 



2.3. — The time during which a book may be retained without renewal shall not exceed one month 

 and the Society's Librarian shall request a member who has had a I o>k beycnd this period to return 

 it to the Libraiy at once. 



