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the ensuing year was again fixed at one pound. The 

 number of dinners during the past session had been twelve, 

 attended by 161 persons in all, comprising 149 members 

 and 12 visitors. The largest attendance at any dinner was 

 21 (at the Anniversary), the smallest six. 



Letters were read from Dr. Owen Rees resigning his 

 membership owing to ill-health, from the Marquess of Salis- 

 bury and from the Right Hon. W. A. Smith, regretting 

 their absence owing to the pressure of their public duties, 

 and from Sir H. Lefroy, apologising on the ground of ill- 

 health. The three excuses were accepted, and those who 

 sent them were elected Supernumerary Members. 



The Senior Treasurer then proposed the following addition 

 to the Rules of which he had given notice at the meeting 

 on 5th May : "No change shall be made in these Rules 

 nor any new ones be proposed except by Resolution at the 

 Anniversary Meeting, notice of which must be given at 

 least two meetings of the Club previously." 



He also moved that Rule VI should be modified as 

 follows : 



" Any Member who has not attended the Club at least once in 

 any given year, shall be reminded of the circumstance, and if in 

 the course of the succeeding year he does not once attend he shall 

 no longer be considered an ordinary Member of the Club ; but it 

 shall be open to the Club to elect him a Supernumerary Member, 

 provided that he be duly proposed and seconded and that a sufficient 

 reason be given for his non-attendance, when he may be balloted 

 for in the usual manner as for ordinary members, and if elected, 

 will be liable for the annual subscription." 



These proposed changes were unanimously adopted. The 

 same arrangement of the meetings as had been followed 

 during the last few years was again ordered for the ensuing 

 session. 



Four vacancies were declared, and these were filled by 

 the election of Dr. Thomas Lauder Brunt on, Sir Charles 

 W. Wilson, K.C.B., Dr. George Harley, and Dr. George 

 Johnson. 



The President and two Treasurers were re-elected for 

 the ensuing session. Of the new members three were 



