Rules. Ixxvii 



2. — The ordinary course of proceedings shall be as follows : — 

 I. — The minutes of the previous meeting shall be read and sub- 

 mitted for approval as being correct. 



II. — The names of candidates for membership shall be read, and 

 the ballot for election of Members shall take place. 



III. — 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 

 ordinary 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 notices of the sub- 

 ject 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 con- 

 versation and the exhibition of Microscopical objects and Natural 

 History specimens, and for the borrowing and exchanging of books, 

 shall be held on the last Wednesday in each month throughout the 

 year, at eight o'clock in the evening. 



6. — Photographic meetings shall be held on the first Friday in each 

 month throughout the year, at eight o'clock in the evening. 



Business Meetings and Election of Ofl&cers. 



1. — 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. 



8.— An Annual Meeting of the Club shall be held, in place of the 

 ordinary meeting, on the third Tuesday evening in January, at eight 

 o'clock, when the election of of&cers for the year ensuing shall take 

 place ; and the Eeport 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 Eules 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. 



