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8. The Chairman shall not be eligible for office for more 

 than two consecutive years, and one of the Yice-Chairmen 

 shall retire each year. 



4. Candidates for admission, not being members of the Eoyal 

 Society, must be proposed and seconded by two members of 

 the Section at one meeting, and be balloted for at the next 

 ensuing meeting ; one black ball in five to exclude. 



5. Evening meetings shall be held on Tuesdays, at the dis- 

 cretion of the Committee of Mp.nagement, for the purpose of 

 reading papers, dealing with the natural history of Australia 

 (more ^particularly of the neighbourhood of Adelaide), or for 

 the purpose of mutual instruction. 



6. There shall be at least eight Field Meetings during the 

 year ; the time and place to be arranged by the Committee. 



7. At the annual general meeting a statement of accounts 

 shall be submitted by the Secretary and duly certified by two 

 auditors appointed at the previous ordinary meeting, pre- 

 paratory to being handed to the Treasurer of the Eoyal Society. 



8. The Section ma}^ from time to time elect as honorary 

 members those who have been proposed and seconded in the 

 usual way, and have been unanimously elected by ballot. This 

 shall also apply to corresponding members. 



9. Any member owing the subscription to the Section and 

 neglecting to pay the. same on or before the first day of January, 

 shall be liable to have his name removed from the list of 

 members of the Section ; provided always that written appli- 

 cation for the same shall first have been made by or on behalf 

 of the Treasurer of the Royal Society ; and, provided also, 

 that the Committee shall have power to restore the defaulter's 

 name at his request, after payment of arrears. 



10. The rules and regulations of the Section shall not be 

 altered unless a written notice of motion, signed by not less 

 than five members, be given at a meeting of the Section ; and 

 thereupon such motion may be brought forward at the next 

 meeting. 



11. Any resolution passed under rule 10, altering or re- 

 pealing the rules of the Section, shall be in force until the 

 meeting held in the month of October following ; and if not 

 then confirmed, shall thereafter be held void and of no effect. 



12. On the written requisition of twenty members, delivered 

 to the Secretary, an extraordinary general meeting may be- 

 called to consider and decide upon the subject mentioned in 

 the requisition. 



13. The Committee shall be empowered to frame rules for 

 the conduct of excursions arranged for by them. 



