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2nd Proposal. 



To add the following clauses to rule 46. 



" The Council shall have the power of appointing any other day 

 not later than that day fortnight, for the annual meeting." 



" After the termination of the regular business of the annual meet- 

 ing, the meeting may be considered an ordinary general meeting." 



Under the rule as it now stands, the annual meeting must be held 

 on one particular day and on no other. Experience has shown this to 

 be inconvenient. — The Council, therefore, propose that a limited dis- 

 cretion shall be conferred on them to alter the day when it appears 

 expedient to do so. 



The object of the 2nd clause proposed in this amendment is to 

 give greater interest to the January meeting. Few members are 

 found to attend when the business is confined to routine official 

 statements and reports. 



3rd Proposal. 



To omit clause 1 of Rule 60, which provides that the names of 

 visitors allowed to be present at a meeting shall be read aloud by 

 the chairman. 



This rule has fallen into abeyance, and as it is not considered 

 desirable to enforce it, the Council recommend that it should be 

 cancelled. 



Resolved that the July meeting be made special to decide on these 

 proposals. 



The Council submitted the following report from the Meteorolo- 

 gical Committee, and requested authority to address Government in 

 the sense of the Committee's recommendations. 



The Committee having had under their consideration the general 

 measures to be adopted to further the objects with which they are 

 specially concerned, have come to the following conclusions. 



The value of the study of meteorological phenomena in a scienti- 

 fic and abstract point of view needs no discussion. Nor is the prac- 

 tical importance of this science in any degree less great than that 

 of any other branch of physical knowledge. 



Every where the occupations of man, whether on the land or on 

 the sea, are intimately bound up with the changes of the seasons, 

 with the fall of rain, with the directions and forces of the winds, and 



