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East Kent Natural History Society. 



TITLE & OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY. 



The objects of the East Kent Natural History Society shall 

 be the Collection and Diffusion of Practical and Theoretical 

 knowledge respecting Natural PTistoiy, in all its Branches, both in 

 relation to the particular District and the General Science. 



RULES AMD REGVLATIOKS. 



MEMBERSHIP. 



1. The Society shall consist of Ordinary, Honorary, and Corresponding 

 Members, and of Associates. 



2. Every candidate for admission into the Society as an Ordinary 

 Member, must be proposed in writing by two Members, and the election 

 shall be by show of hands or by Ballot, taken at any meeting of the 

 Committee, or at a General Meeting — one negative in five votes to 



exclude. 



3. The Annual Subscriptions to be paid by Ordinai-y Members shall be 

 Ten Shillings ; the Subscriptions shall become due on the 1st of January 

 in each year, and shall be paid in advance for the current year. Any 

 Member neglecting to pay his Subscription for three months after it is 

 due, shall be applied to by the Treasurer or Secretary, and if the Sub- 

 scription remain unpaid for three months after such application, he shall 

 cease to be a Member of the Society. 



4. The Committee shall have power to admit, without ballot, on the 

 nomination of two Members, any Lady who shall be desirous of becoming 

 an Ordinary Member, and her Subscription shall be Five Shillings. This 

 rule shall apply also to such sons, brothers, and nephews of Ordinary 



