id) 



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 twenty minutes in the actual reading, unless by the 

 special 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, 

 and for the borrowing and exchanging of books, shall be held on the fourth 

 Wednesday in each month throughout the year, at half-past seven o'clock 

 in the evening. 



BUSINESS MEETINGS AND ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 



I. — The accounts of the Club shall be audited by two Members 

 appointed at the ordinary meeting in December. No Member of the 

 Committee shall be eligible as 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 second Wednesday evening in January, at eight 

 o'clock, when the election of officers for the year ensuing shall take place, 

 and the report of the Committee on the affairs of the Club, and the balance 

 sheet, duly signed by the Auditors, shall be read. 



4. — The Officers of the Club shall be nominated in writing, and such 

 nominations shall be sent to the Secretary, seven clear days before the 

 Annual Meeting. In the event of the number of nominations exceeding the 

 number of Officers to be elected, a printed list of the nominations shall be 

 circulated at the Annual Meeting, and the Members present shall vote by 

 ballot by striking out the names of those for whom they do not desire to 

 vote, and placing the lists in an urn upon the table. Scrutineers shall be 

 appointed at the meeting, and the votes shall be counted during the course 

 of the meeting. 



5. — 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. 



LIBRARY. 



I. — Application for the loan of books or Microscopical slides to be made 

 to the Hon. Librarian at any " Ordinary " or " Conversational " meeting of 

 the Club, the borrower to sign a receipt, which will be cancelled on the 

 return of the work borrowed. 



2. — No Member may have more than one work at a time. 



3. — No work may be retained longer than one month, but the same work 

 may be again borrowed provided there be no other applicant for it. Any 

 Member not complying with this rule will incur a fine of is. for each month 

 after the first that the work is retained. 



