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ELECTION OF MEMBERS. 



IX. — Every person desirous of becoming an ordinary member 

 of the Society must be recommended in writing by three ordinary 

 members. On being so recommended he shall be declared to be 

 elected by the votes of the majority of the ordinary members 

 present either at a committee meeting, an ordinary meeting, or 

 the annual meeting of the Society. 



X. — Honorary members shall be 'proposed by three ordinary 

 members, and voted for at the next ordinary or annual meeting. 



XI. — Members of the Tyneside Naturalists' Eield Club may 

 become associates of this Society so long as the present arrange- 

 ment between this Society and the Tyneside ^Naturalists' Field 

 Club exists, upon the payment of the subscriptions hereinafter 

 mentioned. 



XII. — Any member proposing to resign shall notify the same 

 in writing to the secretaries previous to the day on which the 

 yearly subscription becomes due. 



XIII. — Every ordinary member shall pay to the treasurer the 

 sum of not less than one guinea annually, such subscription to 

 be paid in advance, and to be due on the first day of August in 

 each year. 



XIV. — Every associate shall pay to the treasurer a sum of 

 five sliillings annually in advance, due on the first day of August 

 in each year. 



XV. — An ordinary member may compound for his future an- 

 nual subscriptions by a payment of fifteen guineas, and having 

 so compounded he shall be entitled to idl the privileges of an 

 ordinary member. 



XVI. — If any member do not pay his subscription for one year 

 after its becoming due, and further neglect to pay it for three 



