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In volume lxxiv. of the Proceedings, appendix ii., 

 pp. 9-36, will be found by-laws of the Society, as 

 they stood, on the confirmation of those agreed to 

 on the 9th, 16th, and 23rd of November 1837, at the 

 stated General Meeting in March 1838. 



Under them the management of the business of 

 the Society was to be confided to a Council, the 

 powers of such Council to be strictly, as hereafter, 

 limited and defined, and subject to the direct control 

 over the proceedings upon the part of the Society at 

 large. It was to consist of the seven vice-presidents, 

 two honorary secretaries, the chairman and one other 

 member of each committee, and nine members who 

 were to be elected by ballot. This Council was to 

 meet weekly, and to keep minutes of its proceed- 

 ings. Under a by-law of November 1838, its meet- 

 ings were to be open to members of the Society, 

 but they were to be without power of speaking or 

 voting. 



The following were the first members who were 

 elected on the 26th of April 1838 by the committees, 

 to serve on the Council : 



Agriculture and Husbandry . { ^JS^""*""* 



Botany and Horticulture . • { S^ ""' ^'"^ 



r i „ •_ f „, f Dr. Meyler, Chairman. 



Chemistry » w - 1i; ' wlInne 



I William Will 



ans. 



Fine Arts { George Cash, Chairman. 



V Daniel McKay. 

 T ;k-,„, / E. R- P- Colles, Chairman. 



Llbrary I Richard Hemphill. 



Manufactures { Sir Edward Stanley, Cft«> 



I B. B. Johnston, 



man. 



man. 



Natural History and Museum { {£' ^f^ Y ' Chai? 



Natural Philosophy and Me- / Henry Adair, Chairman. 



chanics I. Edward Clibborn. 



c tot ; ct ;„ c / Sir William Betham, Chairman. 



btatlstlCS I William Smith. 



