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12. In order to facilitate the objects of the Society, the 

 Committee shall be empowered to appoint any Member 

 Local Secretary for the town or district he may reside in. 

 Such Local Secretary shall be ex officio a Member of the 

 Committee. 



SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS AND EXCURSIONS. 



13. To promote the interest and usefulness of the 

 Society, four or more subscribing Members of the Society, 

 in conjunction with Local Secretary, may make arrange- 

 ments for organizing and holding Local Meetings, under 

 the sanction of the Central Committee ; notice to be given of 

 such Meetings at the General Meeting. 



14. Ordinary periodical meetings of the Society for the 

 purpose of reading papers, exhibiting specimens, etc., or 

 the discussion of subjects connected therewith, shall be 

 held in the principal towns of the district, in rota, at such 

 times as the Committee shall appoint; ten days' notice of such 

 meeting shall be sent to every member. Each member 

 shall have the power of introducing a visitor to the meetings, 

 on entering the name in a book to be kept for that 

 purpose. Every donation of Ten Shillings, in addition to 

 the subscription, shall entitle a member to introduce two 

 additional visitors. Any of these ordinary periodical meet- 

 ings, as the committee shall appoint, may be so arranged as to 

 comprehend an excursion or excursions for the purpose of 

 practically investigating the objects of interest in the 

 district ; every person to bear his own expenses at these 

 excursions. 



