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3. — The Officers and Committee shall be elected annually at a 

 General Meeting, to be held as provided in Rule 8. A list of 

 nominees shall be prepared by the Committee, and submitted to 

 such Annual Meeting, and the election shall then be made by show 

 of hands. Any vacancy which may occur during the interval 

 between two Annual Meetings shall be filled in by the Committee, 

 and reported to the Society at the next meeting. 



4. — All persons above sixteen years of age are eligible as 

 members. Anyone desiring to join the Society must be proposed 

 and seconded by two members at any ordmary meeting, and may 

 then be elected by show of hands. 



5. — All members shall contribute a Subscription of Five 

 Shillings annually, payable on election, and on each succeeding 

 first of January. Members elected in December shall not be liable 

 for any subscription until the following first of January. 



6. — An ordinary Meeting of the Society for the election of 

 Members, for reading and discussing papers and correspondence, 

 and for the exhibition of Microscopical and other specimens, shall 

 be held on the first and third Tuesdays in each month at the 

 Museum at 8.15 p.m. ; or at any other time and place duly notified 

 to the members. 



7. — Each member may introduce two friends at any ordinary 

 meeting, 



8. — An Annual General Meeting of the Society for the election 

 of Officers and Committee, for receiving and considering the state- 

 ment of accounts and a report of the Committee on the affairs of 

 the Society, for alteration of Ru'es, and for other business, shall be 

 held in December. Six members shall form a quorum at such 

 meeting. 



9.— In the event of its becoming necessary in the interval 

 between two Annual General Meetings to consider any proposed 

 alteration in the Rules, or other matter of special importance, such 

 question may be considered and settled at an ordinary Meeting of 

 the Society, provided that notice thereof has been given to the 

 members. 



10. — The Committee may at its discretion make grants of 

 money from its available funds towards paying the expense of 

 illustrating lectures and for the purchase of books on Natural 

 History and Microscopy. 



