THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. xlvii. 



Present Development, and Possible Future Use." The Competi- 

 tion will be open to any person who was between the ages 

 of 1 8 and 30 on IMay 12th, 1908 (that being the date of the 

 last Annual Meeting of the Club), and who either was born in 

 Dorset or had on May 12th, 1908, resided in the County for the 

 previous twelve months. A statement giving particulars of 

 qualification should accompany each paper sent in. 



Papers for both medals must be clearly written, and may be 

 illustrated by drawings or photographs, provided that these are 

 the personal work of the candidate. The committee will attach 

 great importance to original observation. Papers should be 

 sent in by March ist, 1909, to the President of the Club. 



Alterations of Rules. — On the motion of the President, 

 acting after consultation with his official colleagues, Rule 7 was 

 amended to read as follows : — 



Every candidate for admission shall be nominated in writing by one Member 

 and seconded by another, to both of whom he must be ^lersonally known. He 

 may be proposed at any meeting, and his name shall appear in the programme of 

 the first following meeting at which a ballot is held, when he shall be elected by 

 ballot, one b'ack ball in six to exclude. 



To this rule the following addition was made : — 



In the event of the number of vacancies being less than the number of 

 candidates at four successive meetings, the names of any candidates proposed at 

 the first of such four meetings who have not been elected at one of them shall 

 be withdrawn, and shall not be eligible to be again proposed for election for at 

 least a year after such withcbawal ; provided that, if at any meeting there shall 

 be no vacancies available, it shall not be counted in estimating the above-named 

 four meetings. 



INIr. Vere Oliver suggested that, now that the Membership of 

 the Club had reached so large a number, it would be a good 

 thing in the future, and would save much time and bother, if 

 they left the election of new Members to the Executive, as was 

 done in other Clubs. IMr. Alfred Pope agreed that it would 

 greatly facilitate matters if the new Members were elected by the 

 Executive, 



