80 RULES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



27. Meetings of the Council shall be convened by the 

 secretaries monthly or whenever they shall deem it requisite, 

 or shall receive a requisition of three members of the Council 

 for that purpose. At all meetings of the Council three shall 

 be a quorum. 



28. The record of the Council's proceedings shall, at all 

 times, be open to the inspection of the ordinary members of 

 the Society. 



29. The Council for the year at their first meeting, and 

 from time to time afterwards when a further appointment may 

 seem to them requisite, may appoint curators, to whom shall 

 be entrusted the making of the minor arrangements of the 

 museum and building and the care of the specimens; and the 

 proceedings of such curators shall be subject to the revision 

 and control of the Council. 



30. The Council may appoint a house committee out of 

 their own members, to whom shall be entrusted the minor 

 arrangements of the collections and museum building and the 

 examination of accounts. 



31. The Council shall also have power from time to time 

 to delegate to a committee any portion of their work excepting 

 the expenditure of the funds of the Society and the election of 

 members. Any such committee shall consist of not less than 

 four or more than eight members, of whom at least one-half 

 shall be members of the Council and the remainder ordinary 

 members of the Society. 



32. The proceedings of all committees shall be subject to 

 the revision and control of the Council. 



33. Each committee shall be empowered to elect its own 

 chairman and secretary or secretaries. 



34. Auditors shall be appointed at the annual meeting 

 each year; and their examination of the accounts shall be 

 completed, and a statement thereof, as audited, shall be 

 printed and distributed with the notice of the armual meeting, 

 one week at least before such meeting. 



35. The Society shall not make any dividend, gift, division, 

 or bonus^ in money, unto or between any of its members, 



