IX 



Branch Societies. 



XXYni. The Society shall have power to form Brancli 

 Societies in other parts of the Colony. 



Sections. 



XXIX. To allow those inemhers of the Society who devote 

 attention to particular branches of science fuller opportunities 

 and facilities of meeting and working together with fewer formal 

 restrictions than are necessary at the general Monthly Meetings 

 of the Society,— Sections or Committees may be established in 

 the following branches of science : — 



Section A. — Astronomy, Meteorology, Physics, Mathematics, 

 and Mechanics. 



Section B. — Chemistry and Mineralogy, and their application 

 to the Arts and Agriculture. 



Section C. — Greology and Palaeontology. 



Section D. — Biology, i.e., Botany and Zoology, including 

 Entomology. 



Section JE. — Microscopical Science. 



Section F. — G-eography and Ethnology. 



Section G. — Literature and the Fine Arts, including 

 Architecture. 



Section JB^. — Medical. 



Section I. — Sanitary and Social Science and Statistics. 



Reports from Sections. 



XXX. There shall be for each Section a Chairman to preside 

 at the meetings, and a Secretary to keep minutes of the pro- 

 ceedings, who shall jointly prepare and forward to the Hon. 

 Secretaries of the Society, on or before the 7th of November in 

 each year, a report of the proceedings of the Section during 

 that year, in order that the same may be transmitted to the 

 Council. 



