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Branch Societies. 
XXVIII. The Society shall have power to form Branch 
Societies in other parts of the Colony. 
SECTIONS. 
XXIX. To allow those members 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.—Geology and Paleontology. 
Section D.—Biology, i.e., Botany and Zoology, including 
Entomology. 
Section E.—Microscopical Science. 
Section F.—Geography and Ethnology. 
Section G.—Literature and the Fine Arts, including 
Architecture. 
Section H.—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. 
