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Saturpay, NoveMBER 29TH, 1856. (Stated Meeting.) 
JAMES HENTHORN TODD, D.D., Presipent, 
in the Chair. 
Tue following Recommendation of the Council having been 
read by the Chairman, viz. :— 
‘< That the first clause of the Recommendations respecting 
the rotation of the Council, adopted on the 30th November, 
1854, be repealed, viz.: 
‘¢¢ That it is expedient that one member of each Committee 
be removed in each year, in addition to any vacancies which 
may be caused by death, resignation, or non-attendance.’ 
‘‘ And that the following be substituted for it :— 
<< That it is expedient that one Member of each Committee 
be removed in each year, in case no vacancy should occur on 
that Committee by death, resignation, or non-attendance.’” 
It was moved as an amendment by the Rey. Joseph A. 
Galbraith, and seconded by Frederick J. Sidney, LL.D.,and— 
Reso.tveD,—That the Resolution proposed by the Council 
be referred back again to the Council, with the recommenda- 
tion that the words ‘ And the Vice-Presidents” be omitted 
from clause 2 of the Resolutions of Nov. 30, 1854,* with 
respect to the mode of electing the Council. 
Rey. Samuel Haughton read a paper on some Experiments 
on the Poisonous Properties of Strychnine and Nicotine. 
Mr. Haughton stated, that he was induced to make the 
experiments which he now brought under the notice of the 
Academy, by the consideration of the specific actions of 
strychnine and nicotine upon the muscular system, which ap- 
peared to be so opposite in their character as to lead him to 
* See Proceedings, vol. vi. p. 133. 
