embodying the balance sheet, duly audited, and a state- 

 ment of the present position of the Institute. This report 

 shall be laid before the Institute at the General Meeting 

 in December. No paper shall be read at this meeting. 



Expulsion of 

 Members. 



XX. If it shall come to the knowledge of the 

 Council that the conduct of a member is injurious to 

 the character of the Institute, and if two-thirds of the 

 whole Council shall be satisfied, after an opportunity of 

 defence has been afforded to the member, that such is 

 the case, they shall request him to resign, and in case 

 of his not doing so, may expel him from the Institute. 



In every case all proceedings shall be entered upon 

 the minutes. 



Special General 

 Meetings. 



Election of 

 Members. 



XXI. The Council shall call a Special General 

 Meeting of the Institute on receiving a requisition in 

 writing signed by twenty-four members of the Insti- 

 tute, specifying the purpose for which the meeting is re- 

 quired ; no other business shall be entertaiued at such 

 meeting. Notice of such meeting, and the purpose for 

 which it is summoned, shall be sent to every member at 

 least ten days before the meeting. 



XXII. Every candidate for membership shall be 

 proposed and seconded by Members of the Institute, 

 The name, the address, and the occupation of every 

 candidate, with the names of his proposer and of his 

 seconder, shall be communicated in writing to the Se- 

 cretary, and shall be read at a meeting of Council, and 

 also at the following meeting of the Institute, and the 

 ballot shall take place at the next following ordinary 

 meeting of the Institute. When the number of voters 

 in favor of any candidate shall be five times the number 

 of those against him, he shall be declared duly elected, 

 and not otherwise. 



Members shall 

 sign lajvs. 



XXIII. Every newly elected member shall, at the 

 first meeting of the Institute at which he may be pre- 

 sent, sign a declaration, in a book provided for that 

 purpose, that he will observe the laws of the Institute. 



Honorary 

 Members. 



XXIV. Gentlemen not resident in Victoria, who 

 are distinguished for their attainments in science, litera- 



