4 BY-LAWS. 



2. The Library and Cabinets shall be under the superintendence 

 of a Committee, consisting of the President and four Members, who 

 shall be elected by the Council at the first Meeting in February in 

 every year (three of whom shall be a quorum), and who shall 

 render an Annual Report to the Council at the first Meeting in the 

 following January. 



3. No Member or Subscriber shall, without special permission 

 of the Council, be allowed to borrow or have in his possession from 

 the Library more than four volumes at one time, or to retain the 

 same longer than one month, without leave of the Curator. 



4. If the books are torn, injured, lost, or not forthcoming when 

 demanded by the Curator, full compensation shall be made for the 

 same by the borrower. 



5. The Curator shall call in all books borrowed from the Library 

 on the 5th day of January and 5th of July in every year; and in 

 case the same be not returned on or before the General Meeting 

 of the Society in the following month, notice thereof shall be given 

 by him to the Council, who shall then direct a second notice to be 

 sent to the Member or Subscriber retaining such books, and in 

 case the same be not returned within the further space of four 

 weeks from the date of such second notice so sent, such Member 

 or Subscriber shall in future be disqualified from borrowing books 

 from the Library without the special permission of the Council. 



6. All Members of and Subscribers to the Society shall have 

 free access to the Library and Cabinets, at the time specified in 

 the By-Laws, for the purpose of examination and description, 

 and shall be allowed, with the permission of the Council, to borrow 

 specimens from the collections for such purposes ; excepting that 

 if a Member, Subscriber or Stranger present specimens of new 

 insects to the Society with manuscript names attached, specifying 

 his intention of publishing the same, then no individual, whether 

 Member, Subscriber or Stranger, shall during the space of twelve 

 months publish any description or figure of such specimen. 



7. No Stranger shall be allowed to see the Library or Cabinets 

 unless introduced by a Member or Subscriber ; but a note addressed 

 to the Curator or Secretary shall be deemed a sufficient intro- 

 duction. 



8. No Stranger shall be permitted to take away or to describe 

 any insect, or to make a drawing of the same, except by special 

 permission of the Council previously obtained. 



