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number of the ordinary members having such registered 

 places of address, unless it shall appear that the failure or 

 neglect to give them such notice was intentional on the 

 part of the person or persons by or by whose direction 

 the notices of such meeting were or ought to have been 

 given. 



COUNCIL AND OFFICERS. 



63. Subject only to such control as is by these presents 

 reserved to or vested in the general meetings of the 

 Society, and to such resolutions as may be passed by 

 general meetings, the affairs of the Society shall be 

 managed by a council chosen from the ordinary members. 



64. The number and constitution of such council may 

 be from time to time determined by a general meeting, but 

 until otherwise determined by a general meeting such 

 council shall consist of a President, four Vice-Presidents, 

 two Secretaries, a Treasurer, a Librarian, and six other 

 ordinary members. 



65. The first and present members of the council and 

 their respective offices shall be as follows : Edward 

 Schunck, President ; James Prescott Joule, LL. D., Edward 

 William Binney, Robert Angus Smith, Ph.D., William 

 Gaskell, Vice-Presidents ; Joseph Baxendell, Osborne 

 Reynolds, Secretaries ; Samuel Broughton, Treasurer ; 

 Francis Nicholson, Librarian ; Robert Dukinfield Darbi- 

 shire, William Boyd Dawkins, Balfour Stewart, Alfred 

 Brothers, Brooke Herford, Charles Bailey, ordinary mem- 

 bers of council. 



66. At the annual general meeting, to be held in the 

 month of April, 1875, and at each annual general meeting 



