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Excursion in 1899. 



Mr Dunn intimated that the Council had agreed to recommend 

 that the Annual Excursion should be made to the Counties of 

 Sutherland and Ross, the estates proposed to be visited being 

 Dunrobin, Dornoch, Skibo, and Novar. Mr Pitcaithley moved 

 that the Excui'sion be made to Novar for three days. Mr 

 J. Williamson seconded. Mr Dunn moved that the matter be 

 remitted to the Council, with powers, as hitherto. Mr Win. 

 Mackinnon seconded. On a vote being taken, Mr Dunn's 

 motion was carried. Mr Pitcaithley suggested that cheap 

 fares should be arranged from other centres than Edinburgh, 

 such as Perth and Aberdeen, and the matter was remitted to 

 the Council. 



Paris Exhibition in 1900. 



Mr Dunn intimated that the Council had decided not to 

 send an exhibit to the Exhibition, but proposed to ai*range an 

 Excursion to France that yeai', and to visit the Exhibition. 



The matter was remitted to the Council, with powers. 



Motions Disposed Of. 



In submitting to the Meeting the motion standing in name of 

 the Council regarding the Election of Members, Colonel Bailey 

 said that the Council's experience of the working of the motion, 

 which had been in operation during the past year, led them to 

 suggest that before it was finally adopted it should be amended, 

 to the effect that confirmation by the Society of the Election of 

 Members should be abandoned, and the great delay in admitting 

 Candidates to full Membership be thus dispensed with. This 

 was agreed to. The motion, as amended, was then read and 

 formally put to the Meeting, and unanimously adopted, as 

 follows : — 



Every Proposal for Membership shall be made on the 

 Form provided for the purpose, which must be signed 

 by two Members of the Society as Proposer and 

 Seconder, and delivered to the Secretary to be laid 

 before the next Meeting of the Council. The Pro- 

 posal shall lie on the table till the following Meeting 

 of the Council, when it shall be accepted or otherwise 

 dealt with, as the Council may deem best in the 



