Minutes of Proceedings. 405 



A grant of £15, recommended by the Council to Professor Cole 

 and Mr. J. A. Cunningliam, in aid of researches on the Igneous- 

 Dykes and Metamorphic Eocks of iSr."W. Ireland, was approved. 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 Donors. 



The folloTving By-Laws, recommended by the Council to be 

 substituted for the existing By-Laws, Chapter lY., K'os. 4 to & 

 inclusive, were brought up and considered : — 



4. The same person shall not be elected President more than five 

 times in succession. 



5. The two Senior Members of the Committee of Science and of 

 the Committee of Polite Literature and Antiquities, respectively, 

 shall be removed from the Council imraediately prior to the first 

 Monday in March in each year ; and their names, therefore, shall not 

 be included in the list of forty-three names required by the Charter ; 

 but this rule shall not apply to any Member of either Committee who 

 shall hold the office of Treasurer, Secretary of the Academy, Secretary 

 of Council, or Librarian. 



6. Such Members as shall be found to have attended less than 

 fifteen meetings in all, of the Academy, Council, and either the 

 Committee of Science or of Polite Literature and Antiquities, before 

 the end of Pebruary in each year, shall also be removed from the 

 Council immediately prior to the first Monday in March, and their 

 names shall be omitted from the list of forty-three names required by 

 the Charter. 



Provided that if any Member of Council shall have been elected 

 after the Stated Meeting in March he shall not be required to attend 

 fiiteen meetings in order to retain his place in the list, but only such 

 proportion of the number of meetings since his election, as the 

 Council shall judge to be equivalent thereto. 



Provided also that the Council shall have power to accept six 

 attendances instead of fifteen, from members ascertained and 

 determined by the Council to be non-resident. The nimiber of 

 Members to whom this privilege may be given shall not exceed four. 



