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shall be entitled to such privileges as are hereinafter set forth, and her name 

 shall be entered in the list of Associates ; but, unless she pay the Contribution 

 for the current year, and return the Obligation signed and addressed as afore- 

 said -within two calendar months from the day of her Election, or within such 

 further time as the Council may grant upon special cause to them shown, the 

 election of such Associate shall be void. 



« 7. — Section V (Withdrawing and Eemoval of Fellows) shall apply, as 

 nearly as may be, to Associates. 



' 8.— Associates shall not be liable to pay any Admission-Fee. 



' 9.— The Annual Contribution to be paid by Associates shall be One Pound 

 One Shilling, due on each successive 1st of January, and payable in advance 

 for the current year. The further provisions of Section VI (Contributions of 

 Fellows) shall apply, a3 nearly as may be, to Associates. 



• 10. — Associates shall be entitled to be present but not to vote at Ordinary 

 General Meetings ; and at such parts of the Annual General Meetings as may 

 be attended by visitors in accordance with the regulations of the Council for 

 the time being in force, but they shall not be entitled to vote or to propose 

 questions or to comment on the Eeport of the Council or affairs of the Society 

 at such Annual General Meetings ; they shall be entitled to introduce Visitors 

 at Ordinary General Meetings, subject to such regulations as the Council may 

 make from time to time ; to receive such of the Publications of the Society as 

 are sent free of charge to Fellows, and to purchase other Publications of the 

 Society at the reduced prices allowed to Fellows ; and, under such limitations 

 as the Council may deem expedient, to have personal access to the Library, 

 Museum, and all other public rooms in the House of the Society, and to borrow 

 books, maps, plates, drawings, or specimens, belonging to the Society ; but they 

 shall have no share or interest in the property of the Society, nor shall they 

 have any other privileges enjoyed by Fellows, except as expressly herein 

 provided. 



' 11. — Associates shall be bound by the Charter and Bye-Laws of the Society, 

 and by all regulations and orders made and issued from time to time by the 

 Council in accordance with the powers conferred on them by the Charter and 

 Bye-Laws. 



' 12. — A Register of Associates shall be kept in the same manner as that of 

 Fellows, Foreign Members, and Foreign Correspondents.' 



Proposed Alterations in existing Bye-Laws. 



(a) That Bye-Law VI, Art. 4 be repealed, and the following substi- 



tuted : — 



' Every Fellow, if elected before June 30th, shall be subject to 

 the Contribution for the current year ; but, if elected in November 

 or December, he shall pay no Contribution nor shall he be entitled to 

 receive the Publications for the current year.' 



(b) That in Bye-Law XIII, Art. 18 ' and by cheques .... other Members' 



be repealed, and the following substituted : — 



' and by cheques drawn and signed in such manner as the Council 

 shall direct.' 



The following communications were read : — 



1. ' The Toadstones of Derbyshire : their Field-Relations and 

 Petrography.' By Henry Howe Arnold-Bemrose, J.P., M.A., 

 F.G.S. 



2. ' Data bearing on the Age of Niagara Falls.' x By Prof. 

 Joseph William Winthrop Spencer, A.M., Ph.D., F.G.S. 



1 Withdrawn by permission of the Council. 



