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February 22, 1847. 



The Rev. J. BOOTH, LL.D., F.E.S., President, 



in the Chair. 



An Extraordinary Meeting of the Society was held to 

 receive the report of the Council on the result of the nego- 

 ciations between the Committee of the Eoyal Institution 

 and the Council of the Society, with a view to obtain for 

 the Members admission to the Museums, Galleries, &c, 

 of the Eoyal Institution. 



The Eeport, which was read by the Secretary, entered 

 into a detailed account of the preliminary steps of the ne- 

 gociation, the correspondence, and concluded by recom- 

 mending that the following conditions be ratified by the 

 Society : — 



1st. That any Member of the Society shall have the 

 privilege of visiting the Museums, Galleries, &c, at such 

 times as they may be open to the public generally, and 

 shall also be at liberty to personally introduce (not by 

 ticket), as a visitor, a lady, or other person, being a bona 

 fide stranger in Liverpool. 



II. That when any paper shall be brought before the 

 Society, and which might be illustrated or elucidated by the 

 aid of models, specimens, &c, in the Eoyal Institution, it 

 shall be an instruction to the Curator to produce them for 

 that purpose, at the request, in writing, of the President, 

 Vice-Presidents, or Secretary of the Society. 



III. That the Society shall make to the Eoyal Institu- 

 tion a donation of twenty guineas annually, and that they 

 6hall also present it with any books, maps, models, or 

 specimens that may from time to time become the pro- 

 perty of the Society. 



IV. That this arrangement shall hold from year to year, 



