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interim meetings held between ordinary meetings, at which only 

 such business, relating to the publication of papers, as in the opinion 

 of the President is not likely to give rise to difference of opinion, shall 

 be transacted ; and the summons to each meeting shall state whether 

 the meeting is to be an ordinary meeting, or an interim meeting. 



III. At an ordinary meeting no less number than seven of the 

 Members of the said Committee (of which number the President, 

 or in his absence a Vice-President, shall always be one) shall be a 

 Quorum, capable of acting in relation to the said Papers. At an 

 interim meeting any five of the Members of the said Committee shall 

 be a Quorum. The minutes of an interim meeting shall be read for 

 confirmation at the next ordinary meeting, and the minutes of an 

 ordinary meeting shall be read for confirmation at the next ordinary 

 meeting, not at any interim meeting which may intervene. 



IV. The majority of the said Committee, present at any meeting 

 thereof, shall decide with regard to any paper communicated to the 

 Society, whether it shall be published in part or in whole in the 

 Philosophical Transactions or in the Proceedings of the Society, and 

 shall determine what parts, if any and not the whole, shall be so 

 published. They shall further have power to require as a condition 

 of publication such modifications of the text or of the illustrations as 

 may seem to them desirable. 



V. In the case of a paper communicated to the Society, in refer- 

 ence to which the Fellow (or Foreign Member) communicating it, 

 has expressed the wish that it may be published in the Philosophical 

 Transactions^ the Committee of Papers, by a majority of those present, 

 shall refer such a paper to at least two persons who are knowing and 

 well skilled in the particular branch of Science to which the said 

 paper relates, and who shall separately report in writing (or if one or 

 both of them happen to be for the time being Members of the said 

 Committee, he or they may report orally) their opinion of the said 

 paper, and in particular as to its fitness to appear in the Philosophical 

 Transactions. Such reports of referees shall be considered as con- 

 fidential communications. 



In the case of a paper in reference to which no such wish has been, 

 expressed by the Fellow or Foreign Member communicating it, the 

 Committee of Papers shall have power to refer in like manner the 

 communication, or not, as they shall see fit. 



VI. The decisions of the Committee of Papers shall be determined 

 by the majority of votes of those present and voting, and the voting 

 shall be open, unless the President shall direct that the voting shall 

 be by ballot. In case of an equality of votes, the President shall have 

 a second or casting vote. 



The decisions of the Committee shall be duly entered in the 

 Minute-book of the Committee. 



