Council Meetings. 
- XXIII. Meetings of the Council of Management shall take 
place on the last Wednesday in every month, and on such other 
days as the Council may determine. ‘ 
Absence from Meetings of Council._— Quorum. ce 
XXIV. Any member ‘of the Council absenting himself from 
three consecutive meetings of the Council, without giving a satis- 
_ factory explanation in writing, shall be considered to have vacated 
his office. No business shall be transacted at any meeting of 
the Council unless three members at least are present. i 
Duties of Secretaries. . 
- XXV. The Honorary Secretaries shall perform, or shall cause 
the Assistant Secretary to perform, the following duties :-— ; 
1. Conduct the correspondence of the Society and Council. : 
ee _ 2. Attend the General Meetings of the Society and the ; 
meetings of the Council, to take minutes of the pro- 
ceedings of such meetings, and at the commencement — 
of such to read aloud the minutes of the eas 
meeting. 
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to read the certificates of sainitiaiten for admission: | 
the Society, and such original papers communicated to 
the Society as are not read by their respective authors, = 
3 3 and the letters addressed to it. 
ae 4. To make abstracts of the papers read at the Ordinary 
: General Meetings, to be inserted in the Minutes — 
printed in the Proceedings o 
_ 5. Toedit the Transactions of the ve soikiiy and to a : 
the making of an Index for the same. a 
6. To be responsible for the arrangement and safe custody 
of the books, maps, plans, mpecimen, and other i: 
of the Society. a 
