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April 17th, 1907. 



Sir Archibald Geikie, D.C.L., Sc.D., Sec.B.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Allan Arthur Davidson, Mining Engineer, c/o the Bank of 

 Tarapaca & Argentina, Coquimbo (Chile) ; Hugh Michell Luttman- 

 Johnson, Mining Engineer, Rand Club, Johannesburg (Transvaal) ; 

 James Henry Ronaldson, Consulting Mining Engineer, P.O. Box 

 5224, Johannesburg (Transvaal) ; Francis L. G. Simpson, Mining 

 Engineer, Mohpani Mines, Central Provinces (India) ; and John 

 Edward Wilson, Dunholm, Ilkley-in-Wharfedale (Yorkshire), were 

 elected Eellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The President announced that a Special Genera] Meeting would 

 be held on Wednesday, May 15th, 1907, at 7.30 p.m., for the 

 purpose of considering and voting on the following proposed New 

 Section, and Alterations in existing Sections, of the Bye-Laws : — 



Proposed jS"ew Section oe the Bye-Laws — Associates. 



' 1. — Any woman who has distinguished herself as a geological investigator, 

 or who has shown herself able and willing to communicate to the Society- 

 original and important geological information, or who has exercised signal 

 liberality towards the Society, and is desirous of being elected, provided she 

 be a British subject, or be domiciled in the British dominions or their 

 dependencies, may, subject to the provisions hereinafter contained, be elected 

 an Associate, the number elected being limited to forty. 



' 2. — A book shall be kept at the House of the Society, in which Fellows may 

 enter the names and qualifications of women whom such Fellows recommend 

 as Associates, together with a statement that any woman so recommended is 

 desirous of being elected. 



'■ 3. — So soon as convenient after a name has been entered in the book, the 

 Council shall, provided there be a vacancy, consider whether such name shall 

 be submitted to a ballot of the Fellows as an Associate ; or, if there be more 

 names entered in the book than there are vacancies, the Council shall select 

 which, if any, of such names shall be so submitted to ballot. 



' 4. — The name or names so selected shall be read aloud at two Ordinary 

 General Meetings, and balloted for at the next Ordinary General Meeting, 

 under the same regulations as with Candidates for Admission into the Society 

 as Fellows, so far as such regulations are applicable ; but the Certificate shall 

 be in a form similar to that permitted in the case of Foreign Members and 

 Foreign Correspondents, except that it must state that the Candidate is 

 desirous of becoming an Associate. 



' 5. — The Secretary shall without delay inform every newly-elected Associate 

 of the fact of her Election, and shall at the same time send her a printed copy 

 •of the Obligation, No. II in Appendix B, except that the word ' an Associate ' 

 shall be therein substituted for ' a Fellow,' together with a copy of the Charter 

 and Bye-Laws of the Society, a list of the Fellows and Associates, and a Card 

 announcing the days on which the Society will hold its meetings during the 

 Session, 



1 6. — So soon as such newly elected-Associate has paid her Contribution for 

 the current year and has returned the Obligation, signed by herself and 

 .addressed to the Secretary at the House of the Society, but not before, she 



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