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llo.ck-specimens and fossils were exhibited by Mr. A. F. Kitson, 

 in illustration of his paper. 



A Special General Meeting was held before the Ordinary 

 Meeting, at 5 p.m. The Peesidext addressed the Fellows present 

 in the following' words : — 



The reasons for the action of the Council implied in the alteration 

 of the Bye-Laws now proposed are so obvious that they hardly 

 require statement. The unavoidable increase in all the establish- 

 ment expenses of the Society has most seriously reduced the sum 

 available for its publications. It will have been noticed that, in 

 the Estimates for the current year, the sum that could be allotted 

 for the Quarterly Journal was £650, only about two-thirds of 

 the sum expended in years preceding the War ; meanwhile the cost 

 of printing and materials is at present trebled, with no prospect 

 that it will return to the pre-war standard in the future. The 

 threatened impairment of the function of the Society as a publishing 

 medium has been anxiously considered by the Council, and as a step 

 towards meeting the situation it is proposed to raise the Annual 

 Contribution of Fellows elected after the present session to Three 

 Guineas, with an equivalent advance in the Composition Fee. The 

 pries of the Journal to outside subscribers will also be raised. 



I will now formally propose that Section YI, Articles 2 & 6 of 

 the Bye-Laws shall be altered to read as follows : — ■ 



Section VI. — Contributions of Fellows. 



2. The Annual Contribution to be paid by Fellows shall be Three Pounds 

 Three Shillings, due on each successive 1st of January, and payable in advance 

 for the current year. Fellows elected before November 1st, 1919, shall be 

 liable for an Annual Contribution of Two Pounds Two Shillings. 



6. A Fellow may at any time compound for future Annual Contributions, 

 that of the current year inclusive, by payment of Fifty-Two Pounds Ten 

 Shillings. 



If he (or she) has already paid the Contribution for the current year, or any 

 part of it, such payment shall be reckoned as forming a portion of the Com- 

 position. The Composition-fee for Fellows elected before November 1st, 1919, 

 shall be as follows : — if elected before November 1st, 1877, Twenty-One 

 Pounds ; if elected on or after November 1st, 1877, Thirty-One Pounds Ten 

 Shillings; or if elected on or after November 1st, 1894, Thirty-Five Pounds. 



The foregoing resolution was balloted for, and carried with one 

 dissentient. 



The suggestion of the Council to revert next Session to the 

 hour of 8 p.m. for the Ordinary Meetings was then submitted for 

 consideration, and by 25 votes to 13 the Fellows present decided to 

 maintain the hour of meeting at 5.30 p.m. 



