VI.



Vernon, Surgeon-Capt. W., The Cottage, Bitton, Bristol.


Vivian, Mrs., 5, Upper Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, W.


Walker, Miss H. K. O., Chesliam, Bur}’, Lancashire.


Webb, Mr. Arthur W., 4, Radnor Place, Hyde Park, London, W.


Wiener, Mr. Aug. F., 47, Doughty vStreet, London.


Wilkinson, Miss Beatrice, Fnd Cliffe, Manor Road, Edgbastou,

Birmingham.


Williams, Mr. Howard, 4, Highbury Grove, London, N.


Williams, Mrs. Leslie, 10, Lansdow.11 Crescent, Bath.


Williamson, Dr. G. C., The Mount, Guildford.


Winchilsea and Nottingham, The Dowager Countess of, 6, Bedford

Square, London, W.C.


Wordsworth, Miss A. M., Maer Hall, Newcastle, Staffs.


Young, Mr. J., 34, Hillfoot Street, Dunoon, N.B.



RULES OF THE AVICULTURAL SOCIETY.



1. — The name of the Society shall be “ The AviculTural Society,”

and its objeCt shall be the study of Foreign and British Birds. Poultry,

Pigeons and Canaries shall be outside the scope of the Society.


2. —The officers of the Society shall be elected annually by the mem¬

bers in manner hereinafter provided, and shall consist of a President, one

or more Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, a Secretary, an Auditor, a Scrutineer,

and a Council of 12 members. The Secretary and Treasurer shall be ex-

officio members of the Council.


3. —Each member shall pay an annual subscription of 5/-, to be due

and payable in advance on the 1st of November in each year. New mem¬

bers shall pay an entrance fee of 2/6. Any member whose subscription or

entrance fee shall be four months overdue shall cease to be a member of

the Society, and notice of his having ceased to be a member, and of the

cause, shall be inserted in the Magazine.


4. — New members shall be proposed in writing ; and the name and

address of every person thus proposed, with the name of the member

proposing him, shall be published in the next issue of the Magazine.

Unless the candidate shall, within two weeks after the publication of his

name in the Magazine, be objected to by at least two members, he shall be

deemed to be duly elected. If five members shall lodge with the Secre¬

tary objections to any candidate he shall not be elected, but the signatures

to the signed objections must be verified by the Scrutineer. If two or more

members (but less than five) shall objeCt to any candidate, the Secretary

shall announce in the next number of the Magazine that such objections

have been lodged (but shall not disclose the names of the objectors), and

shall request the members to vote upon the question of the election of such

candidate. Members shall record their votes in sealed letters addressed to

the Scrutineer, and a candidate shall not be eleCted unless two-thirds of the

votes recorded be in his favour; nor shall a candidate be elected if five or

more votes be recorded against his election.



