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2.—The ordinary course of proceedings shall be as follows :— 
I.—The minutes of the previous meeting shall be read and submitted for approval as 
being correct. 
II.—The names of candidates for Membership shall be read, and the ballot for the 
election of Members shall take place. a 
IlI.—Scientific communications shall be read and discussed; after which the chair 
shall be vacated, and the meeting shall resolve itself into a conversazione, to 
terminate at ten o'clock. 
3.—In the absence of the President, the Members present at any ordi- 
nary meeting shall elect a chairman for that evening. 
4.—No paper shall be read which has not received the sanction of the 
Committee ; and, whenever it is possible, early notice of the subject of the 
papers to be read shall be given, by the Secretary, to the Members. No 
paper shall exceed fifteen minutes in the actual reading, unless by the 
especial permission of the Chairman. 
5.—In addition to the above ordinary meetings, others, for conversation 
and the exhibition of Microscopical objects and Natural History specimens, 
shall be held on the first Monday in each month, at eight o’clock in the 
evening. 
BUSINESS MEETINGS AND ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 
1.—The accounts of the Club shall be audited by two Members ap” 
pointed at the ordinary meeting in December. No Member of the Com- 
mittee shall be eligible a3 an auditor. 
2.—At the same meeting notice of the Annual Meeting in January 
shall be given from the chair. 
3.—An Annual Meeting of the Club shall be held, in the place of the 
ordinary meeting, on the third Wednesday evening in January, at half-past 
eight.o’clock, when the election of officers for the year ensuing shall take 
place, and the report of the committee on the atfairs of the Club, and the 
balance-sheet, duly signed by the auditors, shall be read. 
4.—No permanent alteration in the rules shall be made, except at one 
of the monthly meetings of the Club, and notice of any proposed alteration 
or addition must be given at or before the preceding ordinary meeting. 
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Form of Certificate for Election of Members. 
CROYDON MICROSCOPICAL CLUB. 
Mr. 
of 
being desirous of becoming a Member of this Club, we beg to recommend 
him for Election. 
(on my personal knowledge ). 
This Certificate was read 187 
The Ballot will take place 187 
Nots.—Original Rules, drawn and adopted at a meeting held on the 
16th March, 1870. 
Rules, as to Election of Officers, and number of Committeemen, revised 
January, 1872. 
Rules, as to payment of Subscriptions and establishment of Conversz« 
tional Meetings, revised and adopted January, 1876. 
